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I agree that SSS is not a good... Letting a herd be destroyed because of politics is worse IMO. Like I have said many times, I have never SSS'd a wolf, I will not either, unless the wolves return to protected status in Wyoming.
What is deathly wrong with this situation is the truth is not making it to the public. You have a part of the wolves story that needs to be told, wolves ARE the big bad killers they have been made out to be. Wolves are incapable of existing in harmony or balanced with ungulates in todays western ecosystem. We have congregated our wintering wildlife in vert small, very populated areas, for the wolves it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Wolves are, and will continue to kill way more than need to simply survive. It's not their fault, they just need HUGE landscapes of un populated wilderness area's to do what they do best...KILL! i.e. Alaska, Canada and Siberia!
Whats going to happen next, in my opinion, is the greenies and or Buzz will blame the feed grounds instead of the wolves. They will want to sacrifice or rid the landscape of elk feeding grounds. That will destroy elk hunting as we know it in Jackson Hole... If this happens, then, I will become a Wyoming wolf vigilante!!! Trust me I will not be alone!!!! Many of us have drawn our line clearly in the sand.