By 1872, the year President Grant created Yellowstone National Park (in part to protect “game” species like elk from wanton destruction by overeager hunters), 100,000 wolves were being annihilated annually. 5450 were killed in 1884 in Montana alone, after a wolf bounty was initiated there. Wyoming enacted their bounty in 1875 and in 1913 set a penalty of $300 for freeing a wolf from a trap.
Though the federal Endangered Species Act safeguarded wolves from overzealous state hunting and trapping laws, as the director of the USFWS pointed out, the ESA is “not an animal protection act.”
Paradoxical as it may seem, wolves were better off endangered. Not as a species perhaps, but to the individual wolf stuck for days in a steel-jawed leg-hold trap, or to the pack forced to dodge a hail of gunfire from cammo-clad snipers and a volley of arrows from a phalanx of archers, it must feel like the misguided war on wolves has begun anew.
Now that they have been declared “recovered” here, wolves are again under threat of the trap and rifle just as they were during the environmentally reckless Nineteenth Century.
By 1872, the year President Grant created Yellowstone National Park (in part to protect “game” species like elk from wanton destruction by overeager hunters), 100,000 wolves were being annihilated annually. 5450 were killed in 1884 in Montana alone, after a wolf bounty was initiated there. Wyoming enacted their bounty in 1875 and in 1913 set a penalty of…
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Dan Ashe should go f himself. He is a disgraceful non-steward of the continent’s native wildlife. Of course, he is only doing what Obama, the cattle industry, Big Ag and the sport killers want. With no regard for ecological health and justice, nor for the will of the democratic majority. Pathetic and criminal. In a better world, these murderous aholes would all be in jail for their crimes against wild nature and the American people.
There’s an entire line of them who should – not just Ashe. There’s a little tempest in a teapot about the Obama daughters during the pardoning of the turkeys, and of course it is being portrayed as a partisan dig at the President. Truthfully, I did notice that the girls seems to be acting like typical bored teenagers with their body language and facial expressions. It is reported that one couldn’t even bother to pet one of the turkeys. Isn’t there some kind of PR dress rehearsal for behavior at these things? But then animals and wildlife welfare aren’t on the President’s radar either, so it isn’t something considered important to be learned at home.
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