Dear editor:

What he did was totally wrong and shows no respect for the animal. I denounce his actions and anyone who thinks what he did was right or funny.

I find this no different from the Game and Fish, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others in live trapping grizzlies, for instance, in culvert traps or foot snares, using bait, drugging, transporting, sometimes hundreds of miles, all of the poking, tests, ear tagging them. Then, we’ve been told, as they wake and are turned loose, at times flogging them with coats to “make them afraid of humans,” even turning said animals loose, often, near family cabins on the North Fork. It is illegal for the public to do anything remotely like that. The bear remembers it all and many have a vendetta against humans as a result. This led, for instance, the mauling and killing up Kitty Creek not so many years ago, by a grizzly environmentalist curious about the situation and how the bear had been treated.

And their treatment of the grizzlies, with no hunting, has given us a bear with no fear of humans and the problems associated with it. How soon before the same will be with wolves? 

Wrong is wrong, whether it be by a private individual or a government entity, it is quite clear. So, while the Daniel man totally disrespected the wolf, and it is totally wrong what he did, I believe the treatment of grizzlies and other animals by government entities is, also. 

Perhaps our government agencies need to clean up their act, also. But they don’t have the mindset, have been taught so much propaganda, that I doubt it will happen. As they don’t listen to the public/owners of the wildlife.

Randy Selby

Wapiti