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A hunter shot and killed a wolf in Union County, claiming self-defense 

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Hunter claims self defense along with a story… We Call B.S….

Perhaps This man shouldnt be in the woods if he is not capable of carrying bear spray. Further admitting he did not know if it was a wolf would lead a prudent Individual to question his story. Hunters need to pass a test before being issued a hunting license.protect the wolves, protect Oregon wolves

A 38-year-old Clackamas man shot and killed a gray wolf in Union County on Oct. 27, according to Oregon State Police.

And for the first time since wolves returned to the state in the late 1990s, the man claimed self-defense. Law enforcement officials agreed. Troopers consulted with the Union County District Attorney’s Office about the incident and no charges are expected to be filed. State troopers did not release the man’s name in a press release.

According to troopers, the man was hunting elk alone in Union County when he said he saw three animals he thought to be coyotes moving around him.

The hunter told troopers he shot at one of the animals when it ran at him. The hunter, police said, screamed at the animal and “feared for his life” before shooting the canid once.

He reportedly returned to his camp and discussed the incident with some fellow hunters, the police account said.

He later returned to the site of the shooting and determined the animal was likely a wolf. The hunter then called state fish and wildlife officials and troopers. An investigation indicated the wolf was 27 yards away from the hunter at the time of the shooting.

Source: A hunter shot and killed a wolf in Union County, claiming self-defense | OregonLive.com

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  1. I was trying to get away from the disease and politics of humans believing they have some sort of “right” to kill wolves. It is pretty much not going to change.
    Anyway, I was deciding that instead of going online, I would just do something when inside, like reading.
    So I picked up the latest book , Nate Blakeslee’s 2017 “American Wolf” blurbed to be about “the enthralling story of the rise and reign of 06, the celebrated Y’stone wolf, and the people who loved & hated her.”
    Turns out it’s mostly about the hater who shot her, the guy, who most observed her (Rick McIntyre, a Y’stone interpretive ranger, and some of the observations, along with reference to thhe history, the legal machinations of the 3 Northern Rockies states, and a few deaths, mostly by humans. SO I didn’t escape at all.
    But it does bbring up the weird cases of some people who at first killed, trapped, poisoned wolves, and only AFTER careers doing tis decided they “love” wolves, probably through learning something they should have by puberty.
    THe book doesn’t really focuss on Seton, Leopold, and others (who are still alive, and I won’t mention their names, because one or two are doing really good work against lethal “management”, even though it’s crazily egotistical of humans to beieve that tey should manage anything.
    The paradox is that there are mostly humans who would just kill everything they decide thhey don’t like (seems like almost every human is exactly like those “terrorists” you hear of, whose thoughts really don’t differ at all from their own. Feeeling proprietary and picking up a gun or bomb (M-44s are basically mines – bombs, as are poisons and traps are just places where someone is forced to wait for a human to impose death, for profit, pleasure, or “management” for a “society.”

    The book shows how rough is the life of wolves whhen their population is saturated – the parent wolves must do things that protect their territories from each other, and I guess are much like humans in that way. They’re not “angels” eithher, and we’ve known this forever. But I’ve lived long enough and been to enough distant places to see that we are the ones who are insanely greedy, taking and fencing and paving and killing without balance or measure.
    I the book, it mentions an old wolf who went up to the place whhere his mate died. He went there from time to time, just looking, smelling, waiting, for her. At the end of his life, some years later, he just went up there and lay down.

    I often tell people, about the blazing thing that is their life – they only live maybe 160 moons at best, a couple longer at times. I do know they don’t go seeking hate and revenge for imagined wrongs done to imagined others. You breather in the gift of oxygen that trees make, they breathe in the CO2 that if you held and kept it, would make you panic and suffocate. We eat, and all but the human in their weird boxes, are eaten. So, everything is made up of what was other beings, and excepting only one stingy animal, what makes everyone up, is going to become part of all other beings. It’s probably that change that is necessary to see and then return to giving, that’s necessary for us to stop the intentional killing for “management”, and hate.

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