US Forest Service employee? He should be criminally charged if that is true. As for these "hunters" and "trappers" you are no such thing. There are humane ways to control predator populations.
Shame on you.
Bob Berwyn:
"...This week, the Center for Biological Diversity sent letters to both the Forest Service and Idaho Attorney General, Lawrence Wasden, today requesting investigations into the actions of Forest Service employeed Josh Bransford, who posted photos of a wolf he had trapped in northern Idaho that had been maliciously and non-fatally shot by people who spotted the animal from a nearby road.
“A year ago, that wolf was protected as a member of an endangered species, but last month he was trapped, tortured and killed thanks to an underhanded congressional rider that’s also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of other wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains,” said the Center’s Michael Robinson. “A lack of respect for the balance of nature is leading to a war on wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains.”
The posting, on trapperman.com, shows the Forest Service employee smiling in front of a still-living wolf surrounded by snow that is bloody from the animal’s gunshot wounds. Idaho state law makes it a crime for a person who “causes or procures any animal to be cruelly treated, or who, having the charge or custody of any animal either as owner or otherwise, subjects any animal to cruelty.”...."
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Reading up on this. No doubt there's a legitimate complaint that population numbers are out of control. Wolves pack and are predators. This is more the fault of Parks and Wildlife not setting up hunting to keep the numbers down. I'm not saying this no excuse for a man is not dead wrong. He is. This was torture and cruelty beyond recognition. It was blood sport. The real problem now is that this story is going to be the face of the entire wolf population problem because he was a forest service employee. Couldn't get any worse from a public relations standpoint. There's already a lot hysteria out there and it will only get worse. That's a real shame and undermines all the good work done by wildlife officers on behalf of wolves so far.
Would be a forest service employee.
Between the mountain lion faker out in Mack and Richard Kendall up in Craig the Rocky Mt. region is really batting 1000 with guys like this.
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