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There is also an increase in unethical behavior around wolves, environmentalists say. In Montana, wolves are legally trapped with neck snares placed on trails.
by justin66 2y ago
There is also an increase in unethical behavior around wolves, environmentalists say. In Montana, wolves are legally trapped with neck snares placed on trails. A wolf wanders into the metal loop and slowly chokes to death. Sometimes, grizzly bears, dogs, or other nontarget animals are accidentally killed. In Wyoming, snowmobile riders chase down and run over coyotes and wolves in a pastime called “yote mashing.”
In one instance a Wyoming man, Cody Roberts, brought a wolf that he had injured with a snowmobile into a bar in Daniel, Wyoming, with its mouth taped shut. He kissed and teased the leashed wolf and allowed it to be filmed before the animal was shot behind the bar. Roberts was fined $250.
- tzs 2y agoI don't remember which state it was other than it was one of Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming, but I remember reading sometime during COVID of the efforts in that state of ranchers who wanted to wipe out wolves due to what they said were high rates of cattle being taken by the wolves. Their state had legalized pretty much every possible way to kill wolves. They were doing aerial hunting from helicopters. They were tracking wolves back to their dens so they could kill mothers and pups. They didn't have to use humane methods of killing. I looked up the numbers on the rates of cattle being taken and it turned out to be something like a couple orders of magnitude lower than the rates that humans were dying from COVID in that state. Yet the state's COVID response was pretty much to ignore COVID. Evidently human life isn't as important there as cattle life.