Thank you for this marvelous account of the war on wolves and their fellow predators. As I read, I kept flashing back on Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing. The young protagonist finally traps a pregnant wolf and, responding to her with respect and awe, tries to resettle her in Mexico. Her eventually tragic battle against fighting dogs in a ring where bets are being placed echoed one story in your account.
I got a sad email from the Cloud Foundation this morning - seems a recently hired BLM employee shot and killed a stallion there - Cloud's grandson! The excuse was his thin-ness (perhaps coming out of a hard winter) and "lethargy" (little fear of humans-in an HMA with lots of human presence).
The lack of feeling - empathy - towards wild animals covers more than predators.
The news article from several months ago about the human? that ran down the young wolf, caught her, duct taped her mouth shut & eventually killed her makes clear that the hatred and fear towards wild animals is still alive & well today - just as it was hundreds of years ago.
Thank you for this marvelous account of the war on wolves and their fellow predators. As I read, I kept flashing back on Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing. The young protagonist finally traps a pregnant wolf and, responding to her with respect and awe, tries to resettle her in Mexico. Her eventually tragic battle against fighting dogs in a ring where bets are being placed echoed one story in your account.
I got a sad email from the Cloud Foundation this morning - seems a recently hired BLM employee shot and killed a stallion there - Cloud's grandson! The excuse was his thin-ness (perhaps coming out of a hard winter) and "lethargy" (little fear of humans-in an HMA with lots of human presence).
The lack of feeling - empathy - towards wild animals covers more than predators.
The news article from several months ago about the human? that ran down the young wolf, caught her, duct taped her mouth shut & eventually killed her makes clear that the hatred and fear towards wild animals is still alive & well today - just as it was hundreds of years ago.