Our state Department of Fish and Wildlife just finished slaughtering another wolf pack including its four puppies on our public lands. After first killing the alpha male, then another adult and two puppies, it finished off the rest of the pack early Friday morning, killing two more puppies and two more adults. Do you care?
WDFW did this just hours before a case to halt this slaughter was to be heard in a courtroom in Seattle. The judge ruled in favor of halting the killing, but it was too late. The pack was already dead. Our attorney general’s office argued for WDFW and lost. Gov. Jay Inslee says nothing.
WDFW has killed every wolf pack that has tried to live on the 80,000 acres of our public land leased by the rancher involved in this slaughter. The judge read the lengthy history behind his failure to protect his cows and calves and ruled against him. WDFW has killed 26 wolves for him. Maybe around 130 wolves live in our state.
Does the public support this slaughter? Do we support WDFW’s management of our wildlife which caters to hunters and ranchers and ignores the vast majority of citizens who do neither of these things? Do we know that our state’s wildlife is suppose to be managed for the public, not special interest groups? What are our environmental groups and animal groups trying to do to stop this? Why does Gov. Inslee and our attorney general support this? What about the people we elected to represent us in Olympia, the ones who keep giving WDFW more money with no accountability attached? Do any of us care about the wolves in our state?
Martha Hall
Anacortes
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