August 23, 2021This coming year, Idaho and Montana will kill up to 90 and 80 percent of their wolves, respectively, giving the green light to baiting, packs of dogs, body-gripping traps and snares, night vision equipment, unlimited firearms and bounty payments. Radius Images/Alamy StockOur nation’s assault on wildlife has been going on for centuries, with a staggering toll of animal loss that dates back to our colonial past. Over those hundreds of years, you’d be hard-pressed to identify a more vilified and persecuted species than the wolf. Today, the campaign that began with farmers and other private landowners baiting, shooting, and trapping wolves has morphed into the institutionalized trophy hunting, bounty killing and government-sponsored predator-control practices that account for their slaughter.
As the February 2021 hunt in Wisconsin made clear, with 2,380 hunting permits issued for a quota of 119 wolves and with
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