“Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.”~ Barry Lopez
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Entire Nine-Member White Hawk Wolf Pack Killed in Central Idaho by Government Gunners
April 2002
“By sometime this weekend (and it may have happened already) the entire White Hawk wolf pack of central Idaho’s Boulder-White Cloud Mountains will be dead.
Ten wolves including the pregnant alpha female who is the famous white wolf of the Sawtooth Valley will be gunned down from a government helicopter.”
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Feds OK killing of wolf pack
The Associated Press – 03/06/04 | Posted: Friday, March 5, 2004
“CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking a federal judge in Cheyenne to uphold the agency’s decision to remove federal protections for the gray wolf in Idaho and Montana while leaving them in place in Wyoming.”
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19 wolves killed in 3 days
Updated: 2:23 pm, Mon Jul 13, 2009.
The remainder of the Hog Heaven wolf pack – 19 animals – was killed this week after repeated livestock depredations west and southwest of Kalispell.
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9 wolves to be killed in Big Hole Valley
Associated Press | Posted: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:10 am
“DILLON — State wildlife officials have ordered nine wolves to be killed after repeated attacks on cattle in the Big Hole Valley.
The state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks gave a trapper with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services permission to kill the remaining four members of the Battlefield Pack and five wolves from the 15-member Miner Lakes Pack.”
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Basin Butte pack killing raises same old wolf controversies
Submitted by Rocky Barker on Thu, 12/03/2009 – 10:34am.
“The helicopter gunning of seven members of the Basin Butte Pack near Stanley by federal agents even as hunters were in the field has angered wolf advocates and highlights again the polarized nature of this issue.
You might remember the Basin Butte pack as the one that delighted wolf watchers for several years as it hung around Stanley and offered the kind of opportunity to see wolves in the wild unlike anywhere but Yellowstone National Park.+
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Mitchell Mountain wolf pack north of Helena to be killed
December 8, 2009
“A wolf pack that lives north of Helena will be killed by state officials, once it was determined that the removal was necessary after the pack killed several domestic animals.”
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Just change the day and year on each of the above press releases and it’s the same old story. Wolves killed for the livestock industry. By highlighting each wolf kill as though wolves are on some massive killing spree, it skews the picture and keeps wolf recovery hopelessly intertwined with cows. Wolves kill very few of the 100 million cattle that graze our public and private lands but you wouldn’t know it by these headlines. In fact the number one predator killing cattle is the coyote and even they are only responsible for a tiny percentage of all cattle death. Most cattle losses are due to weather, reproduction and disease but those statistics are not sensational. They don’t grab headlines or garner sympathy for ranching.
On top of the killing by Wildlife Services, wolves are being hunted in Idaho and previously Montana, until that hunt ended in November, when a quota of 75 wolves had been reached (72 killed by hunters and 3 poached). The Idaho hunt death toll stands at 128 wolves with 92 remaining to be wiped out.
Yet Wildlife Services continues to slaughter wolves and other predators for agriculture. They are erasing a national treasure the majority of Americans consider to be icons of the West but the wildlife viewing public has zero input on the elimination of wolves for the livestock industry.
The two videos below describe aerial gunning in Alaska but it might as well be Idaho, Montana or Wyoming because Wildlife Services does the same thing here in the Northern Rockies. This is the ugly face of aerial gunning of wolves.
Boulder White Clouds Council
Exposing The Big Game
Footloose Montana
Friends of the Clearwater
Lockwood Animal Rescue Center
Louise du Toit
LUPUSLAETUS
Mercy For Animals
Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance (NIWA)
Predator Friendly®- Because Wildlife Matters
Project Coyote
Project: Wolf
The Nature Conservancy
The Ravensong Group
WildEarth Guardians
Wisconsin Wildlife Ethic-Vote Our Wildlife
Wolf And Wildlife Studies: Jay Mallonee (Independent Wolf Biologist)
Wolf Song of Alaska
Wolves in english ! Les loups en anglais !
WWP's Gray Wolf Page
Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative
Howling For Justice 
That is quite the horrible picture, but gets the point across. hammered on all sides they are…
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Sorry g…
I know the video was disturbing but I think it’s important for people to remember that killing wolves or any creature is not sanitized..that blood is spilled, that it’s painful and horrific. Seeing those pictures reminds me how much harder I have to work to help wolves. I know you feel the same way.
N.
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While younger and in the military I did things that were particularly dangerous and at times unpleasent. As I get older I have a very different view of life. Especially life that cannot defend itself against humans, other then take to flight. “The Voiceless”. I cannot bring myself to watch the video “Who mourns the wolves”? It will eat at my soul! That is no exaggeration! It seems lately that my soul has been getting the heck beat out of it. However, I can assure you that I have made it my mission in life to do all that I can to defend wolves and all other predators. That said, I sure wish we could get some good news for a change. M
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Marc,
Thanks for visiting the site, I hope you continute to read. I can assure you I will advocate for wolves always. I know that video is disturbing but I just wanted to remind my readers that wolves are getting kiled out there in the most horrific ways. I know you know that but I wanted to get the point across that it’s a very brutal death for them from people that are doing it for fun and sometimes hatred of this magnificent animal.
Thank you for advocationg for the voiceless, I know there are many good people like you and Jerry, Lynne, Rich, g, rita, the list goes on and on. Wonderful people that truly care and want to see wolves protected.
For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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I agree Marc, the bad news does eat one’s soul! But this emotion leads me to finding more persistence at protecting the wolves.
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