Good News at Last!

Well, I’ve been down about a lot of things lately, and one of the major ones had been the sudden legalized killing of grey wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana (they even allowed this in Yellowstone, can you believe it?) But finally, someone had the sense to speak up.
On July 18th, Judge Molloy of Montana granted a preliminary injunction placing grey wolves in the Northern Rockies back under federal protection until a court case concerning the matter is decided.
Yes, this means the decision may not be permanent, but this also means there is hope. At least they’re safe for now. And, if his judgement holds, wolves will remain under federal protection, rather than being slaughtered in upcoming wolf hunting seasons already planned for this fall. So, there’s still some fighting to do, but for now at least there is hope.

And to those who think like all of these hunting article writers, wolves only attack people when either starving or threatened. Your livestock is no more OWNED by you than your spouse or partner is, and thus you can stand a loss here or there. If you feel you really can’t, there are other proven ways to keep wolves away from your livestock. You don’t have to pass laws that all sports hunters of all people to go out and kill wolves, especially because they do this simply because they ENJOY IT. All you have to do is look up wolf aerial hunting and you’ll see just how much pleasure they get out of killing something they don’t even plan to eat.

Anyways, to help with the on-going fight, if anyone wants to, they can go here to make a secure donation to the cause: https://secure.defenders.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=6201&s_src=WJY08WDWF&s_subsrc=WJY08WDWF_web

This money goes to many parts of the fight, including funding to give ranchers non-lethal wolf management.

Until next time
–Liri

~ by Liri on July 21, 2008.