Wolf protectors 'don't care about human life'

There have been various letters written since my last one several months ago regarding the pro-wolf groups, and their stand as it relates to us poor common saps. Many allegations have been made, and lots of rhetoric has come down, so it is now my turn again.

There is a dirty little secret that these enviros and pro-wolf groups keep trying to ignore. Two names must be thought of as it relates to these canines: Kenton Joel Carnegie and Candace Berner.

Why these young people? They share one thing now — they are dead. Carnegie killed by a wolf pack outside of  Points North Landing, Northern Saskatchewan, on Nov. 8, 2005, and Berner killed by wolves while jogging to and from the native village she taught at in Chignik Lake, Alaska, in March 2010.

Yet you read from these wonderful canine lovers that they are just big, lovable creatures, and we, the hunting community, just do not understand. Well, I will sit here and tell you what I understand. It absolutely disgusts me that all these wolf lovers care not one iota about where or how these canines make their living. And that living is killing and eating our game animals that I have spent a lifetime of buying licenses to allow the state agencies to manage the herds, and grow them to where they were before wolf re-introduction. Be it elk or deer species, mind you the hunters’ money goes to make sure that even all the non-hunters can enjoy viewing them.

That’s millions of dollars, plus what we did as sportsmen, adding the Pittman-Robertson funds to our FWP. The animals are here because of my now 50 years of spending, and show me where one of these pro-wolf groups have ever done one thing when it comes to wildlife.

If you get those letters from pro-wolf groups asking for money, keep these facts in mind. Here are some of the names: Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resource Defense Council, Sierra Club, Humane Society of United States, Center for Biological Diversity, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Friends of the Clearwater, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, Western Watershed Project, Wildlands Network, and Hells  Canyon Preservation Council.

These are your main wolf litigators. They pay  to stop hunting through the court system to help save the earth, and look at what these groups are doing. Recently the Sierra Club and the National Wildlife Federation found a liberal judge and have now stopped the Otter Creek Coal Project, which if it plays out, we the taxpayers may have to reimburse Arch Coal the approximate $86 million they have spent on intrastructure in developing their lease and in bids to our state treasury.

From what I can tell, these environmental groups don’t care about human life, but don’t hurt their chosen animal, mountain range, lake, river, or flower! According to them, the world will end if you do, but in my eye, human life trumps any enviros’ desires. They care more for animals that human life itself. That is not my Bible learning, and I do not apologize.

Shepard is a resident of Columbia Falls.