Famous Yellowstone park wolf killed by trophy hunter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the most popular wolves in Yellowstone National Park was killed by a trophy hunter after wandering just outside the park last weekend, the New York Times reported Friday.

The shooting of the wild wolf Spitfire, also known as 926F, was within in hunting laws as Montana permitted the hunting of the wolves in 2011. According to The Times, several hundred are killed each year.

“A game warden checked with the hunter and everything about this harvest was legal,” Abby Nelson, a wolf management specialist with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, told The Times.

Spitfire, reportedly a favorite among wolf watchers who frequented the park, was the alpha female leader of the Lamar Canyon pack.

Her mother, the wolf famously known as “06,” was also quite the celebrity and had built a reputation for her hunting prowess.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/419284-famous-yellowstone-park-wolf-killed-by-hunter

[RockRaven]

1. New Rule: These trophy hunters can trophy hunt all they like, so long as they hunt each other.

What do you think?

[underpants]

2. Basically laying in wait to kill a dog

Nothing better to do I guess.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Not "harvest". A murder.

[Phoenix61]

4. So the hunter just happened to be just

outside the park at the same time the wolf was just outside the park. Yeah.... nothing fishy about that.

[2naSalit]

5. They sit outside the border of the park with call boxes

to lure them out of the park then kill them. The call boxes are legal but shouldn't be. There is no element of fair chase here, just a convenient set up for wolf-haters to get their jollies. This is why I, and many others, have argued for a buffer zone around the park boundaries to avoid this very killing. The wolf hunt was "supposed to be" held in areas where wolves go after livestock but the limit is always reached within two miles of the park first every fucking year.

I have many friends who hunt but I have a particular hatred for those who trophy hunt, and especially those who kill wolves.