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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow to Kill a Wolf: An Undercover Report From a Wolf Lover on a Wolf and Coyote Killing Derby, Idaho
On Dec 28 and 29, there was a Wolf and Coyote Killing Derby in Salmon Idaho. A writer and 3 friends went undercover into the derby and wrote this article.
FULL ARTICLE (warning, graphic photos of dead coyotes)
http://www.vice.com/read/how-to-kill-a-wolf-0000259-v21n3
by Christopher Ketcham
EXCERPT
The 1st Annual Coyote and Wolf Derby called for hunters to work in two-person teams. In the weeks leading up to the competition I recruited pro-wolf activists Brian Ertz and his sister Natalie Ertz, native Idahoans who have worked for local conservation groups. Rounding out our teams was Brians friend Bryan Walker, a gnarled former Marine and an Idaho lawyer who has studied shamanism and claims to have an ability to speak with animals.
The nice old man in the bar, whose name was Cal Black, bought the four of us a round of drinks when we told him we were in town for the derby. Cal had grown up on a ranch near town, and his thoughts on wolves reflected those of most other locals we met. Salmon is livestock countrythe landscape is riddled with cows and sheepand ranchers blame wolves for huge numbers of livestock deaths. Therefore wolves needed to be dispatched with extreme prejudice. The derby was a natural extension of this sentiment.
Gut-shoot every goddamn last one of them wolves, Cal told us. He wished a similar fate on tree huggers, who, in Cals view, mostly live in New York City. You know what Id like to see? Take the wolves and plant em in Central Park, cause they impose it on us to have these goddamn wolves! Bullshit! Its said a wolf wont attack you. Well, goddamn, these tree huggers dont know what. I want wolves to eat them goddamn tree huggers. Maybe theyll learn something!
We all raised a glass to the tree huggers getting their due. I fought the urge to tell Cal that I live in New York part-time, and that in college Natalie trained as an arborist and had actually hugged trees for a living. Her brother, who is 31 and studying to be a lawyer in Boise, Idaho, had warned me about the risks of going undercover when I broached the idea over the phone. As a representative for the nonprofit Western Watersheds Project, which has lobbied for wolf protections, hed attended numerous public meetings about wolf management in communities like Salmon. Salmon is the belly of the beast, he told me. There is not a more hostile place. Its Mordor.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024178285
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How to Kill a Wolf: An Undercover Report From a Wolf Lover on a Wolf and Coyote Killing Derby, Idaho (Original Post)
Beringia
Mar 2014
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. K & R
I don't believe in killing wolves and coyotes.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)2. One more kick for evening