A man who admitted he intentionally trapped and killed an endangered Mexican gray wolf with a shovel in Catron County has been sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay restitution to the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.
Craig Thiessen pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Albuquerque to a criminal misdemeanor charge of the taking of threatened wildlife, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Thiessen, from Datil, admitted that in 2015 he captured a gray wolf in a trap on his grazing allotment in the Gila National Forest and hit the wolf with a shovel. He admitted knowing the animal was a gray wolf “because it bore a tracking collar, which is affixed to all Mexican gray wolves in the area,” the release states. In addition to probation, Thiessen was ordered to pay $2,300 to the recovery…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Well, at least his restitution payments, as pitiful as they are, will go to the Wolf Recovery Plan. That must stick in his ignorant craw, I’m sure. 🙂
This man freely and boldly admits to bludgeoning to death an endangered wolf in a trap, a wolf with a tracking collar that he acknowledged seeing. What kind of evil person has that much anger and hatred for wolves and the gubmint that’s trying to protect them? And the paltry fine! Surely he should receive more of a penalty than that. That will probably earn him points with his buddies.
You know very well that this is behind the killing of wild horses too. Nothing is to bad for a person like this. And of course I use that term loosely.
But we can’t call him another species since aren’t any low enough to campare to.
No there aren’t! 🙂