Each year I track Montana’s wolf hunting season and write about the carnage. Much of the killing seems distant, but some happens right up the road from my home in what Montana calls Wolf Management Unit 313. I hike and ski and drive in 313—along with lots of other folks and a number of Yellowstone wolves that pass through. Sixteen park wolves were killed this season in 313. But that’s just a number. Each one of those wolves was an intelligent, sentient being with a family.
Such a tragedy. It's hard to read, but we have to stand for them and knowledge is the way.
Beautifully written, tragic to read, painfully true.