THIS NEEDS TO STOP: Echo, the beloved lone wolf who had traveled 500 miles from Wyoming to the Grand Canyon, has been shot and killed by a hunter who mistook her for a coyote. Echo’s sad ending shows why it’s critical that we keep fighting for stronger protections for wolves, grizzly bears, and other endangered wildlife [to say nothing of coyotes, who are shot on sight and hung from fences across the West].
Echo was a symbol of hope as conservationists celebrated the possible return of gray wolves to the Southwest after being wiped out for a century. Echo was probably looking for food or a mate when she was shot…
Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on Coalition for American Wildbirds.
So it was her. I knew she had been targeted. Someone asked why these ‘honorable’ hunters reported it, instead of just shoot, shovel and shutup. To publicize it for the benefit of wolf advocates.
I sure hope that if we give these people enough rope….they’ll hang themselves in the New Year.