Wyoming Enzi and Cheney need to be in Court

Wyoming last year alone slaughtered 81 Wolves, 44 of which were possible National Park Wolves.

Right now, as you read or listen to these words, it is perfectly legal in the backwards state of Wyoming for a person to climb on the back of a snowmobile and chase down wild wolves, or coyotes, then pursuing them until they drop from physical exhaustion. Like that’s not enough, they then run them over relentlessly with the snowmobile or ATV, injuring them until they die.

Guess What, you don’t need a hunting license, nor even a bullet to kill a wolf. You can do the above with impunity across roughly 85 percent of the Cowboy State of  Wyoming which encompasses almost 98,000 square miles, including vast sweeps of public land and excluding only federal wilderness and places where motorized restrictions apply.

Wait for it……………You don’t need a reason to justify your actions either. Even if game wardens were to witness you running down a wolf or a coyote, it is highly unlikely you would hear them complain at all—unless perhaps your conduct happened to startle a deer, elk, pronghorn or domestic cow or horse, and then you might earn a scolding for harassing wildlife or livestock.

In fact, wolves, which were recently taken off the list of federally-protected species and their management handed over to the state unconditionally in 2017, can be killed by virtually any means, any time of day, any day of the year, without limit in most of Wyoming.

Never before in the proud modern history of the  American wildlife conservation has an iconic animal commanding such mystique as our sacred brother wolf been the subject of overt government policies which are encouraging its re-eradication after millions of public dollars were invested in species recovery at the demands of the old west mentality that has no concern for the health of our Wild resources our our environment

Look folks, it isn’t even that, Wolves are charismatic social animals, but wolves in Wyoming are treated as “Vermin”. Their status, by intent, is actually lesser than that because they are relegated pejoratively to “predator” classification—another word for vermin—reserved for feral cats, skunks, and exotic rats.

Lawmakers in Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital, have long resented wolves being brought back to their state. They regard the native canids as unwanted liabilities imposed upon them, although the presence of wolves in Wyoming’s top two tourist destinations being Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, helps generate tens of millions of dollars annually for local economies because they attract legions of avid wolf watchers. Yet another reason why our National Parks need our proposed “Sacred Resource Protection Zone”.

Echoing an “Old West mentality” that first rose on the 19^th-century frontier and still continues on today in Wyoming, Wyoming’s  attitude toward wolves is driven by deep-seated antagonism, defiance fear, fairy tales and uneducated mentality.

Wolves have been accused of “devastating” big game herds, but its ok when Wyoming Hunters slaughtered 31,000 Elk last year. Blamed for wreaking widespread havoc on the livestock industry in spite of scant evidence to support these claims, lobos in the vast majority of Wyoming (except for just 15 percent of the state that includes Yellowstone and Grand Teton) share despised company with another canid unique to North America, the coyote.

By the way, snowmobiles aren’t the only non-firearms tools hunters can employ to destroy these carnivores; lobos, coyotes and their young offspring can be felled with spotlights in the dark of night, poisoned, flattened by ATVs or snowmobiles, snared, incinerated live by pouring gas or dynamite into their dens and then lightning a match—acts that most would consider despicably barbaric.

If a person doesn’t want to do the killing himself, he can summon gunners employed by a federal agency called Wildlife Services, a division within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to shoot wolves and coyotes from the sky using aircraft. It is time that we cut that funding to put it to better work by spending it on healthcare, or the education of those that we plan on leaving a legacy to, being our children.

One former state wildlife professional in Wyoming told Mountain Journal that “what happens with wolves is kind of our dirty little secret—and if the public only knew this is allowed, people would be outraged, deservedly so.”

Protect The Wolves™  blames the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—ironically they are the very federal steward in charge of nurturing our imperiled species toward recovery—for allowing it to happen. Former national director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe told Mountain Journal last summer the agency must abide by states’ rights and the way the Endangered Species Act is currently written, respecting the wishes of whatever states decide to do after an animal is returned to their custody. (The same rationale would apply to the hand over of Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears from federal to state jurisdiction). With which today, Wyoming Senators are Violating  the U.S. Constitution by trying to pass laws that will prevent Judicial Review!

For which we must all come together as one Howl and fight this outrageous act in whatever state it occurs in. Join Protect The Wolves™ Today in this Armageddon against our children’s resources while we still have them left at https://continuetogive.com/protectthewolves