To the Wolf Killers

Your hatred of the Gray wolf is the illogic of insanity, and it is fanned by those motivated by greed who feed you lies that you do not question as you spread their poison.

You label us “wolf lovers” as though it’s a dirty word to love a species and want to see it protected. You call us ignorant outsiders but it’s outsiders who come to your beautiful states to destroy your wildlife with guns while you scorn those of us who would come to your states to appreciate your wildlife with cameras.

You damn the wolf for killing to survive because it deprives you of killing for fun. You kill elk by the thousands, taking the biggest and strongest for your trophies and then resent the wolf pack for taking their small share of the weak and the sick. 

In your arrogance, you believe nature needs you to balance it by killing its predators as though the God so many of you profess to believe in didn't know what He was doing.

You label a species “foreign’’ as though any species but human recognize national boundaries.

As you revel in your tradition of killing, posing with smiling faces over your victims, often surrounded by your children, I wonder does it never cross you mind that the bloody wolf beneath your feet also had a family it was trying to feed and protect?

You call yourselves proud Americans. You believe the right to bear arms is guaranteed in the constitution, yet you stand by while the Constitution itself is violated so that you can have your wolf slaughter. You would fight and die to defend our country, and yet you defy the will of the American People that the Gray Wolf have its place in the ecosystem of the Northern Rockies.

We were wrong. We gave you the benefit of the doubt. We believed that you had risen above the ignorance and wolf hysteria of the past. We thought there was actually room in the Northern Rockies for the Gray Wolf to return home without being threatened yet again with slaughter. We were wrong and now the wolf packs will suffer for it because you are still living in the 19^th Century of your great-grandfathers, isolated by arrogance and insulated with ignorance.

You should be ashamed, but we know you won’t be.

The God that knows every sparrow that falls from the sky also knows every wolf that is killed by your hand, and HE WILL REMEMBER.