EUGENE, OR – A new documentary by the wildlife advocacy group Predator Defense has people across the country fuming at an irresponsible rancher in Washington State who set up a pack of wolves living on public land in a remote forest to attack his cattle. People are also outraged at how state wildlife officials and major conservation organizations were party to the killing of the wolf pack, a slaughter that resumed against a new pack in 2017.
Noted scientists and environmentalists who have watched the film, “The Profanity Peak Pack: Set Up & Sold Out,” are speaking out, excoriating the players in…
Exposing the Big Game 
It is impossible to measure how much reasoning is needed to convince those who act without thinking to start thinking first.
I would like more information.
For one thing, what is it in for Defenders of Wildlife, HSUS, and Wolf Haven? Why are they participating in a group whose decisions often result in dead wolves? Do they think they can reduce the number of killings by being on WAG and arguing on the wolves’ behalf?
THIS IS THE MISSION STATEMENT OF WAG: “To promote equitable, inclusive, and respectful dialogue and decision-making among diverse people to foster durable peace by transforming the root causes of social conflict and providing high quality recommendations on wolf recovery, conservation, and management.”
It seems to me that the root cause of conflict between the wolves and the ranchers is where the ranchers are putting their cattle, and the “peaceful” resolution often comes in the form of bullets, rather than recovery, conservation, and management.
I read the following in “Animal Oppression and Human Violence about 19th century wolf killing: “Stockmen blamed cattle losses—which might be attributed to drought, severe weather, rustling, disease, drowning, and other natural causes—exclusively on a wolf that might simply have been scavenging . . . The wolf as a tangible target.”
We know how ranchers carelessly leave their cattle out on the range to face a number of dangers the cattle cannot escape, whether sickness, injury, weather, or swift-running predators. So I’m wondering, if a wolf is associated with a dead cow, are other causes of death excluded? Do they know for sure that the wolf was not just scavenging or that a different predator was not involved?
Yes, it would appear so. In WA’s ‘wolf management’ plan, (which I’m told is supposed to be a model for the nation!), an unconfirmed kill can count against a pack. So that means that only 3 confirmed kills are the trigger to start killing, of the four necessary over whatever the time period is, and the other is a ‘close enough’.