I was going to stay out of this whole “Forest researcher rescued by helicopter after being treed by wolves” thing, but when I read that local sheriff’s deputies were advised to “…shoot the wolves on sight,” I decided I’d better speak up—if only for the wolves’ sake.

After a bit more searching, I came across what sounds like the most reasonable explanation for the wolves unusual behavior. A report in Northwest Public Broadcasting revealed that “biologists who visited the spot Friday to investigate the incident attributed the rare wolf-human interaction to the presence of wolf pups nearby.”

Surely, humans act a little abnormal when protecting their young from uninvited interlopers. Of course, to the wolves, uninvited interloper is just what the fish researcher was (and for all we know she even smelled like fish to them). The point is, people shouldn’t get too hasty in their judgment of others’ (in…