[elkfersupper]

There has been exactly 1 attack by a wolf on a human in the lower 48 in recent history, and that was in Minnesota, and the wolf was brain damaged.

B.S.

My horse and I were attacked by wolves in the Gila Wilderness and the wolves wound up being brain-damaged, thanks to hooves, rifle and pistol.

[Teacher317]

So you were the one. ;)

[altsehastiin]

You know, nothing quite exposes the silliness and the hypocrisy of the “independent westerner” like this issue. These folks don’t actually want to live in the rugged west. They want to live in some soft, tamed version of it where the mountain lions, and the bears and the wolves have been hunted to extinction to make room for their cows. They claim to fiercely independent, but they would all go belly up tomorrow if they couldn’t run their stock on public lands, or if the BLM or the forest service wasn’t allways bulldozing stock tanks for them. They hate the government, but they all hire on as volunteer firefighters every summer.

People like you claim to love places like the Gila Wilderness, just as long as it’s not TOO wild.