First, please re-read this–it’s supposed to be a piece of satire–please read it carefully. It says Trophies for how many coyote-HUNTERS shot, etc.. People are confusing it with the original poster and saying things like, “this is terrible…” No, no, this is a good thing. Please read it again with that in mind: https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/1st-annual-coyote-and-wolf-hunter-derby/
Also, here’s a New York Times editorial about the “Wolf Haters”
by Lawrence Downes
The federal government removed the gray wolf from the endangered list in the Northern Rocky Mountains in 2011, essentially leaving wolves’ fates in the hands of state fish-and-game departments, hunters and ranchers. The predictable happened: hunting resumed, and the wolf population fell. In states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, an age-old antipathy to wolves flourishes, unchecked.
In Idaho, two recent developments have alarmed those who want to protect wolves and see them not as vermin, but as predators necessary for a healthy ecosystem.
First was the hiring, by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, of a hunter to travel into federal wilderness to eliminate two wolf packs. The reason: wolves kill elk, and humans want to hunt elk. Normally the agency would just rely on hunters to kill the wolves, but because the area where these packs roam — in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness — is remote, the agency decided it would be more efficient to bring in a hired gun. A photo last week in The Idaho Statesman showed the hunter, Gus Thoreson, astride a horse, with three pack mules, looking like a modern-day Jeremiah Johnson.
Advocates for wolves are angry at the United States Forest Service for giving a state agency free rein to practice predator eradication on protected federal land — meaning, of course, our land — without public comment or review and in apparent violation of well-established wilderness-management regulations and policies. They point out, too, that it’s not clear how many wolves are there for Mr. Thoreson to wipe out, and little evidence that wolves in that area have done any damage to elk herds or livestock.
The other example of wolf-animus will be on display this weekend outside Salmon, Idaho, at a Coyote and Wolf Derby sponsored by a group called Idaho for Wildlife. A not-too-subtle poster for the event shows a wolf with its head in the cross hairs of a rifle scope and announces $2,000 in prizes to defend “our hunting heritage” against “radical animal-rights groups.” Organizers say they want to raise awareness of the potential risk to humans from a tapeworm that wolves — as well as elks and dogs — can carry. State officials say there are no known cases of people contracting tapeworm from wolves.
Environmentalists sought a court order to block the event, saying the Forest Service violated federal law and failed to follow its own procedures in allowing the killing contest. But a judge on Friday said it could proceed. The derby’s ugly depiction of wolves as diseased predators is a throwback to the bad old days when wolves, like coyotes, were vilified and bounty-hunted nearly to extinction.
It’s a sad coincidence that this weekend is also the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, which was signed into law on Dec. 28, 1973. That act sought to enshrine sound science and wise ecosystem management over heedless slaughter and vengeful predation. Idaho is showing what a mistake it was to lift the shield from wolves too soon.
Exposing the Big Game 
As usual, the “reasoning” of the haters is gibberish. The Department of Squish and Maim wanted those two packs of wolves dead because they eat elk (the weakest and oldest elk, of course, thereby strengthening the herd, but another time for that). They secured the services of a hired killer because the area was too remote for regular hunters (read: lazy ATV–Asshole Transport Vehicle–riding fat asses). If the area is too remote for wolf hunters, then why can’t the wolves have the elk, since it is obviously too remote for elk hunters also?
Good point, Joanne. Maybe they’re afraid the wolves will become too successful at reinstating the natural order there.
Its going too far and man should never be granted this much power shame on that ignorant judge, wolf haters are just what they say they are , they dont give a rats ass about anything except themselves otherwise they would be willing to try to come to some other solution that does not involve KILLING but thats the whole idea it would take away thier FUN just look at thier photo shoots and tell me im wrong shame on you !!!!!!!