War for the Wolf

The Wolves suffered greatly during the War of the Wolf, a period of 500 years of slaughter that the Wolves all around the world had to endure. When they were reintroduced to Yellowstone by members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, things changed. Right then the War for the Wolf began.

It wasn't too long after the Wolves were introduced that fires occurred in other places. In Alaska, a ban on aerial hunting of Wolves was overturned in the late 1990s.
http://www.akrepublicans.org/pastlegs/spstsb07404192000.htm

This was caused by a Senator by the name of Pete Kelly in Alaska who created Senate Bill 74.
The Wolves were slowly hunted down. This is going on to this very day. This is because the new Governor since that time, Frank Murkowski, supports mass slaughter.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=40&type=1
In 2001, Wolves were being culled in Norway.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/06/17/norway.wof.glb/index.html
This is also continuing this very day.

It was not too long after the men who reintroduced the Wolves to Yellowstone such as Ed Bangs, Carter Niemeyer, and other major players, like Mike Jimenez and Curt Mack, as well as Joe Fontaine, eventually became coordinators for the recovery effort. But this was no recovery effort. They eventually became that which they hated the most and became the new oppressors and murderers of Wolves.

The earliest found article at this time dates this slaughter beginning in 2000.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/20000828_rpermit.html

Decade of the Wolf by Doug Smith tries to romanticize the decade since the Wolves have been reintroduced. Trying to paint murderers as heroes, the same mentioned above.
One of the first Wolf Packs that fell was the White hawk Pack: A pack that was annihilated by Ed Bangs and Carter Niemeyer. Ralph Maughan of For Wolves Organization became a turncoat as well, supporting Curt Mack and the USFWS.

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/rm.txt
http://www.heartofthewolf.org.Whitehawk.doc

Many more followed.
And soon the Department of Natural Resources picked up the act. Adrian Wydeven has murdered many Wolves in Wisconsin.
(Consult http://www.heartofthewolf.org/past.html for the slaughters of 2004-2005. Prior information dating back to 2002 is available upon request to me)

It wasn’t too long after this that in 2000 Ed Bangs and others already touted that Wolves were populated enough for delisting.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2002/06/01/build/local/60-wolves.inc

It is something the USFWS does to this very day, along with the Department of Natural Resources, who are trying to do everything they can to get the Wolves delisted so more can be murdered.

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/ESA1.html
http://www.heartofthewolf.org/ESA1.html

And it isn’t just these groups that want them dead. It is including the famous Wolf ‘expert’, David Mech, who wants to see them culled to sedate murderous hatred towards Wolves.
The problem that continues to this very day is that the USFWS and the Department of Natural Resources continues to deny non lethal methods and Predator Friendly Ranching.

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

And they aren’t the sole groups (http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/OUTDOORS/509100302/1034) who ignore the concepts as well.

Defenders of Wildlife originally created the idea of compensation for livestock damages. They originally created the concept of Predator Friendly Ranching; Which the Holders, brave ranchers, who signed a pact to never kill Wolves and use methods that were non lethal. Many methods exist. Livestock dogs, relocating cattle, are a sample of ways.

http://www.acfnewsource.org/environment/wolf_friendly_beef.html

However, Defenders of Wildlife soon succumbed to murderous solutions.
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A114727

The three states Wyoming, Montana and Idaho have to come up with plans for 'management' before Wolves are handed over to those states. All have made plans except for Wyoming. But this is just a false dream. They are being oppressed as we speak, handing them over to volatile state government would be a death sentence.
Wolves are still declared endangered, so how it will impact other places is not known. Oregon is trying to make a plan itself, whether it will go through isn't clear either.

Colorado's fate is unknown as well. Deliberations took place starting in July of 2004 and continue to this day.
http://www2.merid.org/graywolf/docs/Meeting%20Summary%20040729.pdf

The Heart of the Wolf Organization was created around the time the deliberations began. This was the hope to finally bring to the public the idea of getting Humans to live with Wolves without violence or oppressive means.

In November of 2004 a campaign began by Earl Bingley (President of Canadian Voice for Animals) and now ran by Greg Leisure is attempting to free Kei, a Wolf who has been imprisoned in a 7 X 5 meter cage in the Okinawa Zoo in Japan.
http://www.keithewolf.com

In April of 2005, an activist and wildlife biologist in Alaska by the name of Lena S. (from Care2.com) was nearly killed. This was because she was against the aerial shootings of Wolves that continue to this very day.
http://www.heartofthewolf.org/AKBiologists.html

Luckily she made a full recovery.
Now it is the present, and the Gray Wolves' future is unknown. Mexican Gray Wolves' future is also uncertain, since their population is small, and reintroduction efforts are just as small as the Gray Wolf in the U.S.

http://www.scsun-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=713&num=6121
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/esa6-15-05.html

And the Norwegian Wolves are still in danger, along with the Ethiopian Wolves.
http://www.wildcru.org/research/es/ewolf.htm

Oregon wants murder in it's solution for co-existence.
http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/OUTDOORS/509100302/1034

Mike Jimenez denies murderous role.

The War for the Wolf continues... http://www.heartofthewolf.org/index2.htm

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