WDFW had very good data and professional experts opinions supporting their decision to remove the pack. Director Anderson said the GPS monitoring showed the collared male wolf followed the cattle trucks as they removed the cattle from the grazing allotments.
It's amazing how stubborn the wolfers are, to protest the killing of habituated livestock killing wolves really displays their mentality. I especially would note the brilliant advice for WDFW to translocate wolves that are proven to be cattle killers to other parts of Washington. For the most part once you've heard two or three of them testify, you've heard them all, pretty much all the same naive comments by all of them, sort of like a broken record.
Then there was the guy who claimed he was an elk & deer hunter, ya right mate! How about the woman complaining about Washington "smoking a pack a day". The lady wanting us to live with the wolves, I only ask that she do the same. Perhaps we can arrange a translocation of any remaining wedge pack wolves to Seattle so that she can practice what she preaches. These people are certainly a bag full of unsurprises.
I enjoyed Senator Morton joking about a canadian wolf license. Farm Bureau, Bill McIrvin, and the other ranchers and county commissioners did a good job of representing ranchers and asking the WDFW to delist Eastern WA.
What I do see here is another expense to add to the wolf management tab, this time it was spent on managing wolf lovers.
