By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson
October 11, 2021 0 Comments
A gray wolf pup looking out from his den.Alamy Stock Photo40SHARES
In the spring, wolf dens are usually full of young pups being raised by their parents and helper wolves, but when one den in Idaho was discovered vacant earlier this year, biologists worked on uncovering the reason. Today, theWashington Postreported that eight wolf pups from the Timberline wolf pack were killed by agentsfrom the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, a division that, while unknown to most Americans,takes a heavy toll on wildlife—and native carnivores in particular.
These particular killings are even more heartbreaking because this pack had been studied by students from the nearby high school for nearly 20 years. Timberline High students were shocked to learn that federal agents had killed the pups, and said they planned to…
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Exposing the Big Game 
We really have no one to turn to to protect wildlife in government. It has floored me (almost) that the left now is pushing the ‘recovery’ exaggerations that Trump’s Interior Dept. did. All for political points.
The person who drafted the delisting ruling back in 2011 for Jon Tester is now heading up the Bureau of Land Management, so it doesn’t look like we can expect any help there. No wonder she was a shoo-in confirmation. 😦