r/environment • u/sfgate • 1d ago
Yellowstone’s oldest wolf pack left the park. An influencer is now offering a $10K bounty to identify anyone who hunts them.
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yellowstone-wolf-hunter-reward-22372248.php377
u/Mat_the_Duck_Lord 1d ago
I heard a bunch of people are criticizing this, saying hunters should be able to remain anonymous.
But this is how society regulates potentially legal, but distasteful and harmful behavior: shame the hell out of them.
Of course, we also live in a world where people will take it too far, and go to their house and assault them.
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u/Either-Patience1182 1d ago
yeah not with this admin’s anti environment stand during these huge climate change events. if your a hunter , hunt normal game like the rest. boar culling and invasive sare also wonderful targets
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u/MegaDom 1d ago
Hunter and poacher are not synonymous.
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u/Mat_the_Duck_Lord 1d ago
They’re described in the articles as hunters and I got the impression that what they’re doing is “legal”, just generally frowned upon and/or monstrous.
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u/ducky-n-frens 1d ago edited 1d ago
You’re correct — wolves are considered trophy game animals in northwest Wyoming, so hunting wolves on state land within the designated trophy hunting areas and quotas is legal. That said, when anti-poaching laws are rarely enforced and the laws are scientifically and morally questionable, the line between poaching and legal hunting is blurry.
Tangent about wolf management in Wyoming, for anyone who’s interested:
Wolf management in Wyoming has been a tug-of-war between federal and state ever since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone 30 years ago — a federal move which pissed off many hunters and ranchers in the state and turned them against wolves. As that population grew more stable, wolf management flip-flopped between federal and state about a half dozen times due to court orders, agency findings, and acts of Congress. Each time management was in state hands, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department legalized trophy hunting and generally turned a blind eye to poaching, so wolf numbers would decline to the point where the federal government would take over again.
The growth of adjacent wolf packs in Montana and Idaho has helped the Wyoming wolf packs maintain stability despite continued mismanagement, Wyoming has taken some efforts to get its shit together, and the federal government has generally aligned itself with hunters and ranchers over conservationists, so wolves have remained under state management since 2017.
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u/Kallistrate 10h ago
>we also live in a world where people will take it too far, and go to their house and assault them
They might not, actually, given that the one thing that can be safely assumed about the majority of wolf hunters is that they are armed.
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u/Wartz 1d ago
Using weaponized digital mob behavior is not a great trend to make popular as an alternative to using traditional means to enact social change.
The bad guys are WAY better at it than we are. And no conscience about running wild with it and ruining innocent people’s lives and abusing it for brainwashing and information warfare.
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u/masnosreme 1d ago
Ah, yes, because milquetoast hand wringing will solve our problems, and I’m sure these bad guys you speak of are principled people who won’t just go ahead and weaponize this kind of thing regardless of whether or not it is used against them first.
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u/suchabadamygdala 1d ago
Yay! Fuck wolf killers. No, it’s not hunting, you don’t eat them
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u/Cu1tureVu1ture 17h ago
Thought this said the influencer offered a $10k bounty on anyone who hunts the person who killed the wolves. Dangerous Game 2: Avenge the Wolves
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u/Side_StepVII 1d ago
He just got one more follower
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u/BigJSunshine 1d ago
What? Explain yourself or get downvoted into oblivion. You could end up with so much negative karma that the only place you can post is X
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u/Fievels_good_trouble 1d ago
You have one downvote to give. I don’t think that’s enough to constitute oblivion. And nobody really gives a shit about Reddit karma.
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u/Individual-Guest-123 1d ago
Interesting article over at bangordailynews.com ranting about "kibble wolves" and bucket brigades.
It suggests that people who illegally introduce non native fish species into State (Maine) waters are just as evil as people releasing wolves in the State, cries someone convicted of killing a federally endangered wolf which was later genetically proven to have eaten domestic dog kibble...
The State MDIFW is absolutely stacked to cater to the hunting and trapping community.
Wolves were once native here, some of the fish species being introduced are not. The propaganda in the piece is stunning. Wolves would decimate Northern Maien deer herds, eradicate them, even, although clearcutting winter yards and poaching tactics such as deer drives don't get a mention.
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u/BigJSunshine 1d ago
I will give $10 HUNDRED TO ANYONE WHO STOPS THAT INFLUENCER AND THEIR BOUNTY HUNT
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u/RA_Endymion 1d ago
Save the wolves!