Jerks hunt wolves in Minnesota and Wisconsin

[DavidBrown]

As an ecologist I should probably have a scientific view that "control" of the wolf population by hunting is okay as long as it keeps them at sustainable numbers. As a conservationist I can't help but feel that wolf hunting is just going on because some jerks think it is fun to put bullets in endangered species, which by any sane view wolves still are in the continental U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/us/friction-between-wolf-hunters-and-protectors-rises.html?_r=0

 

[gerenuk]

Now the president of the Timber Wolf Preservation Society, Ms. Dowler, 66, cares for five full-grown purebreds. She bottle-fed them as pups and howls with them at passing sirens. The other day she gave one breath mints through a hole in the fence, passing it directly from her lips to his.

This is just as scary, if not worse.