Since the start of the wolf hunting seasons in Idaho and Montana, as one might expect, I have received several photos of killed wolves. I seldom post the photos because I have no way to easily verify the authenticity of the information that accompanies the photo, so I just leave it alone.

Even dating back to the first wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana (2009), it seemed the most popular pose for photo taking of one’s trophy wolf, was very similar to that of the photo I’ve provided below.

This is a bit troublesome for the hunters and trappers, I was disappointed to think that I and others haven’t done a good enough job educating the sportsmen on a good and proper way of handling these critters.

Several years ago now, it was discovered through testing, that about 2/3rds of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies were carrying echinococcus granulosus (E.G.) eggs. These eggs get deposited all over the landscape through the feces droppings of infected wolves. The eggs remain viable for long periods of time under some very harsh conditions and can be deadly to humans if ingested.

In addition to finding E.G. eggs in wolf and coyote scat, these eggs can readily be found clinging to the fur of wolves, especially near the anal area of the animal. Or, as all of us are aware, canines do a lot of licking in places most humans wouldn’t care to lick, and as such these eggs could be found around the mouth and head area of the wolves.

When hunters and trappers choose to hold and pose with a dead wolf in the fashion depicted below, they run the risk of coming in contact with these viable eggs.

I sent a copy of the email I received that had the below photograph in it to a few scientists and authorities on wolves and canine diseases. Will Graves, author of “Wolves in Russia: Anxiety Through the Ages“, responded with: “At a minimum, hunters should handle bagged wolves carefully to reduce risk of picking up E.G.”

Also this morning, Dr. Valerius Geist, professor emeritus of the University of Calgary and well-known authority on animal behavior and has also studied about canine diseases, wrote: “over 50 years ago i was instructed as a budding wildlife biologist at the University of British Columbia to be careful bout wolves, as there was a possibility of contracting hydatid disease from Echinococcus granulosus eggs in the fur of the wolves. It’s the same warning issued officially to trappers in British Columbia. At the very least, wash hands as quickly as possible after handling a wolf and never eat without washing hands first.”

If hunters and trappers find it absolutely necessary to take up this kind of pose, my advice is to then use every precaution to reduce the risk of picking up any eggs on their own clothing and/skin. It poses considerable risk if those eggs are carried on the hunter or trapper back home with them running the possibility that a family member or pet could pick them up.

Please use extreme caution when handling these animals.

I apologize for the length of this video but it is vitally important in my opinion. What began as a FaceBook post calling the threat of echinococcus granulosus tapeworm and hydatidosis “bullsh**” and quickly moved to Idaho’s official state veterinary given false and misleading information to the media, quickly got my guts in a knot. I had important information and debated as to the best platform in which to relay this. I chose video.

Find out the responses to Dr. Mark Drew’s, Idaho State Veterinary, statement downplaying and providing irresponsible information about wolf diseases, from Dr. Delane Kritsky, Dr. Clay Dethlefsen, Dr. Valerius Geist and Will Graves.

In addition, in the video I stated that I would provide viewers with information where they can go to learn more about wolves and echinococuss granulosus tapeworms, eggs and human contracted hydatid disease. Please follow this link:

On August 5, 2011, Carter Niemeyer shared a statement with his readers on Facebook. From his own website, Mr. Niemeyer states about himself:

Carter Niemeyer is the retired (2006) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf recovery coordinator for Idaho and, as an expert trapper, was a key member of the federal wolf reintroduction team in Canada in the mid-1990s…………He has two degrees from Iowa State University and is a Wildlife Society certified biologist.

With officially recorded cases of human contracted Hydatid disease in Idaho in the past year, and the growing amount of scientific evidence that has come to light in the past 2 years about this disease, it’s life cycle, how it is spread and the potential dangers that lurk for human beings, Mr. Neimeyer posted this statement on his Facebook page:

There are a number of politicians out there trying to convince people who believe everything they hear that the “wolf tapeworm,” is going to kill you. It’s hard to believe the media hasn’t jumped on this bullsh**, so I’m chiming in to tell you that’s all it is: bullsh**. Check with CDC and your state wildlife veterinarian.

One might expect an uneducated person to not grasp the gravity of the situation, merely by failing to understand the science, history and facts involved with the echinococcus granulosus tapeworm. The question now remains is whether Mr. Niemeyer’s statement is recklessly irresponsible and as such may actually be endangering the lives of innocent people. A good example can be found by simply reading the comments from Mr. Niemeyer’s “Friends”.

In an area of Charlotte, North Carolina, where numerous sightings and reports of coyotes have occurred, a homeowner says a coyote climbed (not jumped) her fence around the area of her yard where she lets her dog run. The coyote, she describes, attacked her dog, but the description doesn’t sound like the typical attack. Read the story!

Here’s something interesting though. The news article states: “Animal Control officers found him [coyote] nearby just a couple of hours after the attack, and determined he [coyote] had rabies.” How did they determine that? Was the coyote dead and they ran tests on the dead animal? Or did they just decide that it “looked” rabid? Is the city or county or state governments paying this woman for her treatments? It is after all, their coyote. Kill the dog and make sure it is or isn’t rabid.

The woman has to undergo rabies prevention treatments because the coyote had rabies. Or did it?

And as is typical, when calls in the past have gone out to animal control for help with these coyotes, according to this article, no help is available.

“I asked if there was anything they would do,” said Blanton. “And they said at that point, no there wasn’t.”

Animal Control officers say coyotes are migrating to the Charlotte area, especially its creeks and greenways, but there’s really not a lot they can do about them unless they show signs of being a threat, or of being rabid.

This is a potentially toxic situation looking for a ripe place to happen. Keep on protecting those “song dogs”! Coyote, meet Smith and Wesson! Bang!

More troubling news coming out today of disease-ridden wolves in the Elk City, Idaho area. Of seven wolves killed, necropsies where performed on five of them. The two not studied were due to circumstances that prohibit a necropsy.

Unfortunately, four of the five wolves carried the tapeworm echinococcus granulosus and in two of those cases, the wolves’ intestines were heavily infested. George Dovel, editor of The Outdoors offered the following comment:

It is worth noting that of the four lower intestines examined by WSU’s William Foreyt from four wolves taken in or near Elk City in Idaho GMU 15, which also includes the Idaho County Seat of Grangeville, all contained a significant quantity of E. Granulosus tapeworms. According to the following letters/reports from Foreyt, one contained several hundred, a second contained 4,000+ and the other two contained 10,000+ each. Both the large and small intestine were missing from a fifth wolf carcass shot on June 26th.

Back in 2006, studies in which the Idaho Fish and Game Department covered up, showed that 2/3 of the wolves tested at that time were infested with E.G. tapeworms.

Click on this link and download a copy of the necropsy results. I’ve also provide a Google map that might help show readers the region around Elk City. On the map, Elk City is the red balloon.

Tom Remington

There was a request by a reader to provide another thread so a debate could commence on whether or not Echinococuss Granulosus, i.e hydatid disease was present in canines and/or wild ungulates in the Northern Rocky Mountains region prior to wolf introduction in the mid-1990s.

It was a beautiful early September evening in the rugged mountains of Idaho, and 23-year-old Tina Lind, of Grangeville, was enjoying her very first season hunting with a bow. She and her boyfriend, Ryan, had spotted a good five-point bull out in a clear cut – and chasing cows. They decided to go after him.

“After getting set up, we let out a bugle and the bull screamed back at us. I could hear him racking his horns around in the brush, but it didn’t sound like he was coming any closer. We moved in on him, got set up again, and let out another bugle. The bull came running right in. At that point, my adrenalin was really pumping. The animal stopped perfectly broadside at thirty yards…I drew back…buried my sight pin behind his shoulder…and squeezed the trigger of the release. I heard a solid hit, and the bull ran for about fifty yards before falling over. I was ecstatic!” exclaims Lind.

Taking a nice bull with a bow, during her very first archery elk hunt, was surely a memory that Tina Lind will most likely remember for the rest of her live. She and Ryan gave the elk thirty minutes before walking over to where they had heard it go down.

“As we walked up to the bull, my eyes welled up with tears – what a beautiful animal,” Tina remembers thinking to herself.

After admiring the five-point bull and taking a few photos for a few minutes, the pair rolled up their sleeves and got right down to the work at hand…field dressing and quartering the bull to insure a great winter meat supply. Ryan took care of the field dressing, and after he had reached in, cut the windpipe with an extremely sharp hunting knife, he pulled out the lungs to show Tina where her four-bladed broadhead had passed through, to produce such a clean and quick harvest of the 500-pound elk. They immediately noticed unusual looking liquid filled pockets that had formed on the lungs. Neither of them had ever seen anything like them before. The first thought that went through their minds was…were they tumors? Was it cancer?

The pair did the right thing. They put the lungs into a plastic bag, and took them to a local Idaho Department of Fish and Game office. There, a biologist said he believed them to be hydatid cysts, caused by the elk ingesting grasses and other forage that had held the microscopic eggs of the Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm – a parasite that is now being widely spread by an excessive number of wolves now roaming the Northern Rockies. And those wolves are now spreading billions of those eggs across the landscape of this region every year, creating a health hazard for most other wildlife, livestock, pets and even humans.

“Ryan and I had only heard of this once or twice before, but thought it was just a virus that effected only the wolves, not ungulates or even humans. We had no idea how hazardous to one’s health this disease could be. Needless to say, we now have several packs of latex gloves in our packs to protect ourselves while field dressing, and will check over all the organs every time we harvest an animal. I am still super excited over the bull I harvested, however, every time I go to cook the meat, I will be reminded of the vicious disease that these ‘introduced’ wolves are spreading throughout our state,” remarks successful bow hunter Tina Lind.

The photos of the lungs have been circulated on a number of Facebook pages and on several internet websites. A number of resulting comments have criticized whoever handled these lungs with their bare hands. But, is there really any danger in handling lungs or other internal organs of game that are covered with such cysts? LOBO WATCH went to one of the world’s most respected authorities on the Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm and on cystic hydatid disease for some answers. That individual is Dr. Valerius Geist, PhD., Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, University of Calgary.

“The cysts contain thousands of tiny tapeworm heads floating in a liquid supporting them. I have lived for some 50 years with the understanding that in elk, deer, moose, caribou, etc., neither the cyst’s liquid, nor the tapeworm heads are anything to worry about. They cannot infect you, even if you swallow them – and who would? To a human patient, who carries these cysts, it’s of course a very different matter. Should the cyst burst (internally), then the liquid will generate a severe allergic reaction. Anaphylactic shock may be the consequence. And that can kill the patient on the spot,” advises Dr. Geist.

As for eating the meat of any game harvested that may have hydatid cysts on the lungs, liver or other organs, he points out, “Native people have been eating hydatid infected moose, caribou and deer forever. The meat is safe.”<<<To Read the Rest and See Photographs, Click Here>>>

Editor’s Note: This is an interesting exchange. Not a new exchange, as this topic has been discussed before. What can be taken aware from here is nearly limitless to the open-minded person. To point out a couple, canines, both wild and domestic are capable of carrying several diseases….as many as 30 by some accounts. Because, according to the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the introduction of wolves, disease effects were not debated, nor was there anything but passing mention of diseases, even though several scientists wrote about them, we are now beginning to see the effects of that. In our attempts to save one species, it is important to consider all ramifications on all other species. This was not done in the case of wolf introduction and this is made apparent in the information below as one killer disease was well known many years before wolf introduction.

Below is Jim Beers’ response to an email sent to him and others about whether wild sheep could contract hydatid cysts from tapeworms and have been misdiagnosed with pneumonia instead.

Let me ask you and the others receiving this message…what about wild sheep? Can the bighorns of the Northern Rockies ingest blades of grass laden with E. granulosus eggs, and become infected with hydatd cysts as well?

If so, and the capacity and efficiency of their lungs is drastically reduced, COULD IT BE that what MT FWP biologists have diagnosed as outbreaks of pneumonia POSSIBLY BEEN the effects of hydatid cysts on the lungs?

You’ve probably read that FWP has decided to allow hunters to simply call in and report a wolf kill, or to walk into any FWP regional office and make the same claim…without producing a wolf carcass or any proof of a wolf kill…and the kill WILL BE tallied against the 220 quota. One local hunter I know kept after FWP Region 2 Supervisor Mack Long hard enough that he was told that they do not want the carcasses brought to FWP offices…due to the threat of Echinococcus granulosus eggs. And these are the same people who, a year ago, claimed that a hunter would have to actually eat infected wolf feces before it became an honest health threat.

Seems when faced with FWP personnel having to actually handle wolf carcasses during a check in process…they are now having some serious second thoughts.

I can see one heck of a lot of fraudulent claims of kills being made…to purposely hold down the real kill numbers. In reality, the pro-wolf movement could run out and purchase 220 resident wolf tags…and call in phony kill reports…and account for the entire quota – for just $6,380 ($19 for the wolf license, and $10 for the conservation license). That’s far cheaper than filing a lawsuit to stop the hunt.

Name Withheld

Jim Beers’ response:

1. According to Walker’s Mammals of the World, “domestic sheep have been derived from one or more species of Ovis (i.e. Wild Mountain Sheep) still surviving in the wild”. This fact alone should establish the high probability of their sharing diseases and the likely pathologies for transmission and infection.

2. When the Oregon subcontractors of the US Fish & Wildlife Service (known locally under the nom de plume the “Oregon” Department of Fish and Game) announced plans to “restore” Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep to the Hells Canyon Breaks of the Snake River in NE Oregon in the past decade those paragons of environmental science and protection – the US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and BLM confirmed that they would “HAVE” to close down several nearby domestic sheep grazing allotments to “protect” the wild sheep from “disease”. Can there be any “Higher Authority” than the USFS, BLM, and USFWS plus the Oregon USFWS subcontractor that wild sheep are susceptible to sheep diseases and vice versa?

3. In the days before “science” became a streetwalker for federal/environmental causes; before the federal government could do things like get “science” to erase all the truth about how Brucellosis -undulant fever in humans- is a serious danger to humans from all the literature; and before political correctness erased all truth about the deadly, dangerous, and destructive folly of wolf and grizzly bear programs would wreck communities, kill growing numbers of individuals, destroy hunting and ranching, and debilitate rural cultures: there was honest and true science. The following 2 quotes from those days are here offered on the question of “what about wild sheep? Can the bighorns of the Northern Rockies ingest blades of grass laden with E. granulosus eggs, and become infected with hydatd cysts as well?”

A. In 1944, according to Stanley Young, a Biological Survey/US Fish and Wildlife Service animal damage control experts for 40 years and former Chief of the Federal Animal Damage Control Program:

“The sheep disease spread by dogs and wolves and sometimes referred to as sturdy or turnstick in sheep, is caused by the larva or hydatid phase of a tapeworm. The eggs of this tapeworm are distributed in the feces of flesh-eating animals such as the wolf in open range lands. These eggs are taken on forage by grazing sheep and hatch on the walls of the stomach. The embryos pierce the stomach walls and enter the blood; some reach the brain or spinal cord, developing cysts. There appears to be no cure for sheep with this affliction.”

B. In 1925, Dr. Norman Criddle, author of The Habits and Economic Importance of Wolves in Canada:

“Another disease spread by wolves is that known as gid in sheep. This fatal infection is due to bladder-like cysts formed on the brain. It is in reality caused by the immature stage of a tapeworm found in dogs, coyotes, etc., and so far as is known it has no other means of spreading than through these animals. The chief method of distribution is brought about by carnivorous animals devouring carcasses of sheep that have died of the disease. Dr. Seymour Hadwen, formerly Chief Veterinary Pathologist of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, who furnished this information states that gid in sheep is not uncommon in Montana and that it has been found in Saskatchewan.”

Unless some University propagandist like the University of Minnesota did 40 years ago; or some USFWS Montana wolf/grizzly subcontractor like “their” Fish, Wildlife and Parks (one of the more “environmentally-infested” state agencies); or some wolf/grizzly do-gooder shooting birth control pills into deer has REALLY CHANGED REAL SCIENCE – hydatid disease from Echinococcus is alive and well… wolves are spreading it.. wolves have been spreading it… sheep (both wild and domestic) can and are picking it up on forage (as I testified before the Oregon State Legislature’s Agriculture Committee recently) … and yes wild sheep have and are decreasing because of it just like Minnesota Moose are decreasing because of wolves and just as western big game herds are on their way out because of wolves but none of this can be said and all of it is denied by a pack of terrorists that hate our America as much as Bin Laden and his pack. I have written and spoken about this so many times now I am getting arthritis in my two typing fingers.

Jim Beers

17 September 2011

Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.

The below photos are gruesome but importantly relevant to residents and hunters in the Northern Rocky Mountain region, as well as all regions of this country where wild canines exist. These photos were taken of the lungs from an elk that was recently killed during an elk hunt, archery I believe, somewhere just northeast of Lewiston. A layman’s examination of the photos certainly leads one to believe this bull elk’s lungs are densely infected with tumors, probably hydatid cysts, a condition that occurs when elk and other ungulates, as well as humans, become infected through ingestion of the tiny echinococcus granulosus eggs.

Once discovered by the hunter who harvested the elk, the lungs were taken to a nearby Idaho Fish and Game office. The person was told the lungs would be sent to a lab for testing. Results are not yet available.

It was discovered approximately 5 years ago that around 60% of all gray wolves tested in the Northern Rocky Mountain area carried tapeworms indicating the existence of echinococcus granulosus. Wolves and other canines, wild and domestic, that are infected, drop there worm-laced feces on the ground where the tiny spore-like eggs are transmitted to such things as grazing animals, animals or humans passing by that may disturb the scat, etc. These eggs, often thousands of them, can end up in water supplies, berry patches, and be brought home by unleashed dogs and pets. From here the eggs can easily be transmitted to humans and inadvertently ingested in sometimes unimaginable ways. The threat is serious.

There are officially recorded cases in Idaho of humans with hydatid cysts in their organs. Treatment is difficult at best and sometimes deadly to humans. Detection is difficult compounded with the fact that doctors are seldom looking for this disease. Often it is not discovered until some kind of heavy blow to a persons abdomen ruptures a cyst causing great pain. A rupture of this kind could cause an allergic reaction, an anaphylactic shock, that could be deadly. Removal of the cysts is difficult faced with the same threats of rupturing a cyst causing the further spread of hundreds or thousands of eggs.

I have read inaccurate accounts from people that these cysts do not pose any kind of threat to our wildlife and in particular ungulates like deer, elk and moose. Certainly, upon examination of these photos, can one expect that this bull elk has the lung capacity in his wild habitat to escape danger from large predators such as mountain lions and wolves?

The questions that we are seeing and hearing from hunters and citizens observing these photos, tell us that it appears people have become aware of the existence of this disease. It also tells us we need to do a better job of educating the public of the dangers, how they can reduce those dangers and what precautions need to be taken in handling the meat and what to do with the offal. This is where state government should stop stonewalling this phenomenon and get with the program. It might save a life or two.

This website contains numerous articles on hydatid disease, echinococcus granulosus, facts, tips, and just about all the information you need to know. Please follow this link and begin a research into a better understanding of this dreaded disease.

Thank you goes out to a reader who emailed me the photos and to the hunter that took the elk and photos and is willing to share that information.

I received an email a few days ago that contained a link to another study. Why is it I am getting to the point of losing interest in even glancing through the latest study? Could it be that they are all mostly lacking in credible science and either agenda-driven directly or indirectly? Or is it simply bought and paid for by someone eager to provide “scientific evidence” to support their agenda, casting their corrupt money on greedy scientists?

The article that contains information about the study can be found at Royal Society Publishing. I’ll just give you the link where you can find the free version of the text of the article. If you so wish, you can navigate from there and find other information.

The study, in which scientists were interested in learning what effects poaching had on the recovery on endangered species, took place in Scandinavia. The study, for whatever it’s worth, claims to show that “cryptic poaching”, (I presume meaning the secret kind of poaching? What other kind is there?)severely hinders recovery of larger predators such as endangered wolves.

Our simulations suggest that without poaching during the past decade, the population would have been almost four times as large in 2009. Such a severe impact of poaching on population recovery may be widespread among large carnivores.

Thank God for “cryptic poaching”!

I could actually care less about this study. It’s just another study. I have little interest in poaching and wasting my time giving the criminals more attention to the matter than any of them deserve. I am however interested in exposing the criminal enterprise behind wolf reintroduction in this country and the actions of the useful idiots who unwittingly perpetuate the crime.

We must first understand one thing before we move on. If you can’t grasp this concept, you’ll struggle with the rest I’m about to share. Scandinavia, like Russia, Germany, Italy and many other parts of the world, have a history of dealing with wolves that far exceeds that of ours in the United States. I am always wondering how much American elitism plays a role in refusing to believe in historical facts from other lands? More than we may know.

The United States has a two-part history of wolves and both eras are short as historical eras go. The most modern era of living with wolves lacks the completion of even one chapter.

Ignorance causes people to state wolf history incorrectly. They achieve their ignorance through a lack of doing any kind of research on this issue. There’s lots of historical documentation of how hunters, trappers, and settlers dealt with wolves. Contrary to the repeated mantra of never having had a wolf attack on humans in the U.S., history is loaded with examples. No, really! Go look……if you dare.

Americans fail miserably at learning and retaining history. Much of that comes from deliberate cover-ups in order to more easily promote agendas. And we also blunder wretchedly in learning from our foreign friends and neighbors who have dealt with wolves far longer than this country.

The article I linked to above states that if “cryptic poaching” didn’t exist, the number of wolves in the Scandinavian Region would have been 4 times higher in 2009. I’m sure most citizens in Scandinavia also thank God for poachers.

But instead of focusing on how poaching is bad and all the more wolves we all could be miserable with, why not examine the reason why people poach large carnivore predators?

We learned from Will Graves in his book, “Wolves in Russia: Anxiety Through the Ages“, that the Russian people didn’t poach. Instead, they had all their rights to possess weapons that could have easily protected themselves taken away from them. If given the means, they would have killed as many wolves as would have been necessary to live in peace and save their properties.

Years ago, the same as here in the United States, there wasn’t the bureaucratic nightmare to deal with simply to protect yourself and your property. In the U.S. we had guns, we had traps and trappers, baits and poison and a government that paid to kill the nasty predators. Today the same government goes out of their way to protect the wolves at the expense of all the things humans fought to protect. And this is progress? The same anger toward these wolves still exists today as it did 70 or so years ago. But today, those wolves are protected by bureaucratic red taps and lawsuits.

The study referenced above says that poaching of predators such as wolves, “are particularly vulnerable to effects of poaching” and that wolves, “are killed because of conflicts with human interests, such as competition for game, depredation of livestock and threats to human safety”.

This is exactly true and when you have a corrupt government whose aim is to promote the very agenda that infuriates humans, why wouldn’t they shoot, shovel and shut up?

In an email exchange, Will Graves writes: “I’ve hunted in both Sweden and Norway, and when honest hunters become “fed up” with all the red tape etc about controlling wolf numbers, even honest men will sometimes [use] the sss approach.”

We know that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) failed unbelievable with their wolf reintroduction criminal enterprise. The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the reintroduction of wolves was a sham. When you examine the EIS, many things come to light. The USFWS states that, “The presence or absence of wolves will influence perceptions of people about the Yellowstone and central Idaho areas”. And yet, the USFWS essentially ignored all written comments made by organizations and individuals who claimed introducing wolves would anger, not only the hunters, but livestock owners and citizens in general. All USFWS attempted to do was drum up some distorted and poorly examined figures about how much money a wolf in everyone’s backyard would bring the area – more than enough to pay for the introduction.

In short, the USFWS forsook the American people and went ahead with their plan anyway while failing to take seriously things such as social acceptance, the local economies and dangerous diseases. Now it is getting time to pay the fiddler. Americans being subjected to the undesired affects of gray wolves are getting angry. As Will Graves says, they’ll become “fed up” and take matters into their own hands, i.e. SSS.

Rational thinking would lead a person to ask why would the USFWS and the wolf supporters jeopardize their efforts by insisting that the people get so “fed up” they resort to “cryptic poaching”? Beyond anything that might appear obvious, isn’t the intent of the Government, particularly this administration, to incite Americans to anger so that they will do things outside of the usual comfort zones? Somehow, this justifies predator protection?

Tom Remington