{"id":1906,"date":"2006-06-21T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/stop-the-senseless-slaughter\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T19:29:24","slug":"stop-the-senseless-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/stop-the-senseless-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Senseless Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a low-life profession: a sharpshooter who kills endangered wolves. Reminds me of the Fire Department in Fahrenheit 451<\/em> — they start fires instead of putting them out. One can only wish this sharpshooter reads Aldo Leopold’s account of killing a wolf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“We saw what we thought was a doe fording the torrent, her breast awash in white water. When she climbed the bank toward us and shook out her tail, we realized our error: it was a wolf. A half-dozen others, evidently grown pups, sprang from the willows and all joined in a welcoming melee of wagging tails and playful maulings<\/em>. What was literally a pile of wolves writhed and tumbled in the center of an open flat at the foot of our rimrock.<\/p>\n

“In those days we had never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf.<\/strong> In a second we were pumping lead into the pack, but with more excitement than accuracy; how to aim a steep downhill shot is always confusing. When our rifles were empty, the old wolf was down, and a pup was dragging a leg into impassable side-rocks.<\/p>\n

“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes<\/em>.<\/strong> I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”<\/p>\n

\u2014an excerpt from “Thinking Like a Mountain” (A Sand County Almanac) [from Attitudes toward wolves – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This program is fraught with madness. Ranchers need to just suck-it-up and learn to live with predation — they’re rewarded for their loss, anyway.<\/p>\n

Given a chance, not only will some balance be restored and an old wrong righted but ecotourism will come to New Mexico. Wake up! mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: U.S. Kills Wolf, Hunts His Mate<\/a> By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

The male was killed Sunday in New Mexico by a sharpshooter on the program team. Efforts to trap or kill the female were continuing Monday, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Elizabeth Slown.<\/p>\n

Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity said, “We’re very troubled that they’re wiping out yet another pack.”<\/p>\n

[mjh: Note this pack was located in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness<\/em> last month. Tragic irony.]<\/span>
\n– – – – –<\/p>\n

Writing.Com: Canis lupis, The Gray Wolf<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1933<\/em> the Park Service began to see that perhaps predation was a necessary evil and they decided upon new policy, \u201cno native predator shall be destroyed on account of its normal utilization of any other park animal [in Yellowstone]\u201d ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a low-life profession: a sharpshooter who kills endangered wolves. Reminds me of the Fire Department in Fahrenheit 451 — they start fires instead of putting them out. One can only wish this sharpshooter reads Aldo Leopold’s account of killing a wolf. “We saw what we thought was a doe fording the torrent, her breast … Continue reading Stop the Senseless Slaughter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}