Some ranchers are so anti-wolf that they will lure them out of their protected areas to eat dead sheep, and then shoot them.

Cool!

"utter bloodlust" is right. or uncaring utter cruelty.

Even gunning them down is better than torturing them for hours or days, and then killing them.

Humans are so embarrassing this way. If they're pets we breed them out of control, then kill millions in shelters. If they're farm animals we waste idiotic amounts of energy and water and land to feed them, then torture them to death by the millions. If they're wild we drive them to extinction. This century will be such a shame with our species choking the hell out of the rest of the lifes.

Our arrogance & lack of empathy is stunning. We have no right to call ourselves human.

In David Brin's Uplift series, the human race, the 'wolfling race,' fears that the galactic order will find out how many species we callously wiped out in our earlier history. It's not a main theme of the story, but it is mentioned a few times. "Startide Rising" is on my top 10 sci-fi stories. I don't have much hope that we'll evolve to a point similar to the book, however.

When I got several e-mails on this today I sent an e-mail to Pres. Obama protesting the action. I know nothing will come of that, but I don't know what else to do. I just can't believe this whole scene. I fought to get wolves ON the endanger species list. We are almost to the point where because of the absolute horrible methods of killing the wolf and the numbers killed got them on the ESA. It's not just the killing of them it's the utter bloodlust. I just don't understand.

Thanks LG, for posting about this. I hope people see it!

Here's the email I got from the Center for Biological Diversity~

"Last week the Obama administration issued a sweeping delisting plan to remove protections for wolves across the lower 48 states. The plan only maintains protections for the small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.

If finalized this proposal will mean the premature end of decades of work to restore wolves to the American landscape -- even though wolves currently occupy a mere 5 percent of their historic range.

The proposal also means that states will hold the reins of wolf management across most of the country. We've already seen what state management entails for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes, where protections were removed in the past two years -- in short, aggressive trapping and hunting seasons designed to drastically reduce populations, resulting in at least 1,600 wolves killed.

Please take action now to halt this delisting plan before it's too late: Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to turn its back on America's wolves."

http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/salsa/web/tellafriend/public/?tell_a_friend_KEY=11963

Please sign & pass along!!