After winning a court challenge allowing them to hold their hunt last year, the group is holding their 2nd Annual Predator Derby on Jan. 2-3. 2015. There is one difference though. They want to expand the killing zone to almost double the size it was last year. They have petitioned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for approval.
Today the BLM said they would issue an environmental analysis on Thursday, and then take public comment for 15 days before issuing an answer. The contested area involves around 1,500 square miles. Environmental groups are saying they will protest the permit.
The group behind the killing derby, Idaho for Wildlife, is the same group that hosted the derby last year. At that derby, a number of activists and a journalist, Christopher Ketcham infiltrated the hunt. Ketcham wrote a scathing story, “How to kill a wolf,” for Vice. In the story, Ketcham describes a “good old boy” local who bought his group a round of drinks at a local bar. Cal Black then told the “supposed hunters” to “Gut-shoot every goddamn last one of them wolves.”
For those of you who wonder why a gut-shot is recommended, it’s the best way to kill a wolf, but the death is prolonged. Sick, yes. But that’s what these guys like to do. The only thing killed last year, besides a lot of hot air and liquor, was 21 coyotes, but no wolves. No one claimed the $1,000 prize.
Idaho for Wildlife is a supposedly patriotic organization, wrapped in the flag
and espousing American ideals. Dedicated to the preservation of Idaho’s wildlife.The group also states they will “fight against all legal and legislative attempts by animal-rights and anti-gun organizations who are attempting to take away our rights and freedoms under the Constitution of the United States of America.” Interestingly, the group says they believe that wildlife management should be governed by science.
Exposing the Big Game 
The Constitution gives Americans the right to own guns and to revolt against tyranny it does not give you the right to hunt or be an animal killing sadist.
These people are so sick. They have really perverted the constitution using it to say they can kill.
On their website, one of their “partners” is the NRA (of course). And the NRA gets a significant amount of money from the oil and gas industry. These links between the oil and gas industy (e.g., the Koch brothers) and anti-government wolf hater types must be exposed and shared widely. The oil and gas robber barons are trying to gut all regulations that limit use and abuse of public lands, including the ESA, and they are basically using the NRA and their affiliates to further the cause of destroying public lands.