Date:  Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:57:12 -0600 
From:  Mike Wagner <Mike.Herrera@colorado.edu> 
To:  editor@orionsociety.org 
Cc:  mike.wagner@colorado.edu 
Subject:  Through Different Eyes: Shifting Perceptions of the Wolf 
Dear Editor of Orion Society,

In response to this article,

http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/front/index_petersen.wolf.html

, it should be noted that Ed Bangs has murdered
many Wolves during his time since the reintroduction of Wolves in Yellowstone.

He knows many methods exist that prevent livestock depredations without murder.
Livestock dogs, Predator Friendly Ranching and more exist, which he always
ignores.

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/source.html
http://www.heartofthewolf.org/books.html

Wolves are not free, and wild. In fact, Ed Bangs and the USFWS have wanted to
Wolves delisted from the ESA when Wolves have only returned to 15% of their
former range.

Is this accomplishment? Is this return of the Wolf? Is this a change in
perspective about Wolves? No. The face of the oppressors of Wolves change. The
USFWS and DNR's around the country only think the way for co-existence is
control, management, and murder to preserve a false pretense of peace. Instead
of educating the masses, they prefer guns and ammo, collars and control
instead. Fear making hatred and suffering that they perpetuate.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a result, this article leaves out much in the real perspective of what the
Wolves face. And what their future is.

Sincerely,
--
Mike Wagner
Freelance Wolf Activist
http://www.heartofthewolf.org
"All truth passes through three stages.  First it is ridiculed.  Second, it is
violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur
Schopenhauer