Oct. 13, 2019 at 12:01 pm
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0444-780×522.jpg> This female wolf outfitted with a tracking collar and
resting among tree limbs was photographed in 2010. Gov. Jay Inslee says the
number of… (Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife) More
By Chris Bachman
Special to The Times
Those supporting wolf recovery in Washington and throughout the West, who
understand the ecological role of the wolf, extend our heartfelt thanks to
Gov. Jay Inslee. Late last month he sent a letter to the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), requesting changes in its wolf
recovery program. In it, Inslee states, “The status quo of annual lethal
removal is simply unacceptable.”
The governor’s engagement has given traction to slipping recovery.
Population growth was a mere 6% in 2017 and 2% in 2018. So far we have lost
16 of 126 known wolves in 2019.
The governor’s letter incorporates ideas The Lands…
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Exposing the Big Game 
“Social tolerance for the state’s repeated killing of wolves is plummeting.”
Thank goodness and music to my ears. If people really feel strongly about protecting wolves on the landscape, they need to cut back on or stop eating beef. The wildlife and the cattle will thank them. The connection needs to be made between the demand for beef and the killing of wildlife to accommodate it.
Thanks to Gov. Inslee!
If people can’t make sacrifices for their ideals, I don’t know what to say. We cannot look to just the government only, and that’s why blaming and or looking to the government, when we gobble up beef and oil more and more, and continual breeding, just makes me think there is not a lot of change really going to happen.
It’s more than banning plastic straws; what’s so hard about putting a plastic straw in a trash receptacle anyway?