Wolf Massacre Update

The death toll for gray wolves continues to rise as they are ruthlessy killed by hateful people. It is very disturbing although I had no doubt at all that this would happen as soon as federal protection was taken away from them only a few weeks ago.

Here is sad news from Defenders of Wildlife:
Wolf 253M, known as "Limpy" was the beloved member of Yellowstone's Druid Peak pack -- and one of the first wolves shot dead when federal protections were lifted on Northern Rockies wolves.


Photo: Limpy. Copyrighted by Tim Springer.

The Druids are a famous Yellowstone wolf pack. Many documentaries show this pack. I've never ran into them myself-yet. Their home is in Yellowstone's Northern range. Poor unsuspecting Limpy and other pack members wandered into elk feeding grounds in Wyoming across that infamous invisible line that tells wolves and bison not to cross or they will be killed. Limpy and 2 other wolves were shot to death. What a shame. And on the very first day that protections were lifted. FYI, yes, Limpy had a limp. My understanding is that his back legs were crippled up from a fight.

Worse yet, a front page story in the Billings Gazette had the tale of one wolf hunter. He (the man) "stalked his prey (the wolf) for 35 miles on snowmobile" before he was able to kill the wolf. The guy went on to say that although that particular wolf did nothing to him, he killed it out of hate for what wolves have done to livestock-the token wolf (what a cool manly dude, huh?). He claims that pro-wolf folks just do not understand what wolves are capable of. Sorry buddy, but yes we do. We just have more tolerance and and are more capable of seeing the larger scope of things. We see ways for coexistance. Of course there will have to be some loss on both sides. We are not blinded by money. God created all life-He was pleased with all animals. He put them here for a reason and that reason is not to become extinct at the hands of ignorant, hateful, greedy people with guns.

Oh yeah, I am fed up with this town's crappy biased reporting and subliminal hatred & fear tactics! If I had money, I would start my own paper.

Other wolf news, The Southwest's Mexican wolf population continues to drop. Now there are only 52 of them left and basically nothing is being dome to restore that population to a stable number-even though prior government plans were to get that number up to 100 3 years ago.

There are more wolf deaths I could mention but I'm upset now thinking about all this waste of life. All we can do is keep fighting for the wolves even if it is in vain.