Buffalo Boy's Blog

The Grey Wolf has been an endangered species for years now, coming close to extinction because we (humans) hunted them to the brink. Farmers would shoot them because they would kill livestock.

The Grey Wolf has recently been taken off the endangered species list with 1500 wolves in the population. So like any irrational state or states would do, they are already planning to allow hunting of the wolves because they want the population down to 900-1200. I hope the environmental groups in the article above not only sues, but gets total and outright ban on the hunting of wolves.

How sad is it that we think we can play "God" when it comes to saying how many of an animal are "okay" to have in existence. The Grey Wolf used to cover a large chunk of Canada, the mid-westeren US including Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, North/South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Alaska. It was such a huge expanse that this animal lived in that 1500 wolves in the wild should be negligible.

Losing the Grey Wolf would be almost as bad as if we lost the Bald Eagle, which by the way almost happened in the 70's. That bird is on a lot of our money and national symbols, can't let that happen, but it almost did. We should treat the Grey Wolf the same way. The Bald Eagle is off the endangered species list but I don't see anyone out to hunt them.

The Wolf should be permanently protected. Even at 1500 its numbers are probably still fragile due to limited habitat. The Wolf needs a huge range to live in and is very territorial. Its afraid of humans for the most part but can you blame them? If we infringe on their territory though, including farmers with livestock, the things have to eat. Maybe if farmers treated their livestock a little better Id start feeling sorry for them.

Until then, the grey wolf should not only be protected from hunting, they should be protected permanently as a national treasure. They are a beautiful animal that deserves better outcome than what man has given them.