Wolves Killed In Utah

Did you know there is a small geographic anomaly in northeastern Utah where the State has authority to kill wolves? I didn’t but I do now thanks to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, which killed three wolves in Cache County on January 9th. 

Good for you Utah! Nip that issue in the bud before it gets out of control. 

Of course there are the typical loonies who wished the wolves would have either been relocated or left alone, in spite of the State’s law directing DWR to prevent the establishment of wolf packs in the delisted portion of the state where ESA protections do not hold sway. 

Michael Robinson, with the Center for Biological Diversity had this to say… 

“Wolves are beautiful, intelligent social animals at the top of the food chain who play a very important role in the persistence of all kinds of other animals,” Robinson said. “It’s so shortsighted to savor just the livestock industry and decide, we’re not going to have any, we’re going to just have this completely unbalanced ecosystem.”

Unbalanced ecosystem? Dude, this isn’t Eden, we live in a broken, fallen world where stewardship and management are the responsibility of humanity, not apex predators. Paganistic predator worship doesn’t, can’t and never will properly steward our natural resources, there’s a reason wolves were wiped out in the first place and Utah is doing the right thing by safeguarding this small strip of deer and elk rich habitat from the ravages of wolves. 

Well, there you have it, my dos pesos on wolves in Utah. Don’t like it? Leave your opinion in the comments.