Wildlife (Dis)Services slaughtering Idaho wolves (again)

At the request of Ralph Maughan, we're posting this story about the antics of our government in their mission to wipe out native wildlife:

Right in the middle of the wolf hunt and in the zone where there is the highest quota, Wildlife Services took to the air this week in their gunships and blasted away the long-standing Basin Butte Pack at Stanley, Idaho. This is one of 26 wolf packs Wildlife Service has labeled as a “chronic depredating” pack, which seems to mean a pack that at one or more times killed some domestic livestock.

It doesn’t mean killed recently, however. All the livestock left the area for the winter in October.

This pack has lived around Stanley, mostly in Stanley Basin for about 5 years now. Even summer and part of the fall thousands of cattle and sheep are trucked into what many regard as Idaho most scenic valley. Every year or so the pack kills a calf or two. Amazingly it stays near the town of Stanley, even within city limits. If this was a pack that was going to be taken during the wolf hunt, this would seem to be it.
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You might want to call Jim Lukens, the Salmon area regional supervisor and ask him. (208) 756-2271. Approval of Wildlife Services wolf kills has been parceled out to the regional supervisors, like Mark Gamlin (who seems to have few to no wolves in his district).

Sample script: "Hello, Mr. Lukens? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING? Why did you approve the slaughter of the Basin Butte pack for killing cows 7 months before the cows show up again?" OK, maybe you don't want to use the F-word. But we do. We really do.

Nauseating.