Ten per cent of Wyoming wolf population outside YNP now killed

Wolf-kill total reaches 16. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide.  Another wolf has been shot in Wyoming’s “wolves-are vermin-zone.”


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  1. Nathan Avatar

    While it is sad news,
    this is good fuel for the de-listing lawsuit.

  2. Adair Wadkins Avatar
    Adair Wadkins

    That news makes me very sad. My husband and I lived in a log cabin in the Clearwater region. It had been vacant and used as a hunting cabin for ten years previously. A short while after we moved in we discovered we had moved in on the wolves camp.

    We never had a problem with them. I ran into them on foot several times. I am a 5’6″. 130 pound woman. I had livestock and dogs also. One day they took down an orphaned little buck but nothing else.

    Anyway, I think it is a disgrace that humans brought them back and are now hunting them. If nothing else, why don’t we relocate them to states who want them which are several. I know several people who go to Yellowstone just to see the wolves. Why aren’t the kill pics on the news? I hope the lawsuit kicks in soon.

    Sincerely,

    Adair Wadkins

  3. JB Avatar
    JB

    At this rate, they will be able to remove the entire WY population outside YNP in just a couple of years. Not exactly sound management.

    I agree with Nathan. This only increases the likelihood that the court will remand the delisting decision.

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.

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