Love this … why is the camp fire important in expressing your grief? Am writing about fire and this intrigued me! If you have a mo drop me a line - would love to quote you if that’s ok? X
This further demonstrates the inability of States like Montana, Wisconsin and Idaho to 'manage' wildlife under their care. It should automatically set in motion a re-listing and more Federal oversight. (But don't think for a minute that these events (WI going over quota, MT encouraging park border killing, etc.) wasn't orchestrated for that exact response. Because such a response plays to their base - 'see the big, bad federal government is overreaching yet again'.)
I'm shocked and not shocked at the same time. Shocked that a government would allow such senseless slaughter for no reason (as you mentioned no discussion on balance, just violence), and sadly not shocked that there are people who love to do this. It's far worse than so called 'trophy hunting' (which I abhor), it's all about just killing. What is wrong with us as a species. I don't know what to, but I feel a sense of hopelessness (your last column). I am glad to see the ongoing discussions about co-existence, this act was not related to that it seems. I just don't understand the people in government in MT (and ID, I think it has similar law)
"and a whole lot of barely disguised glee at the prospect of permissive violence, often via explicitly cruel methods, toward a species whom many human cultures have been bent on controlling or eliminating for centuries."
Oh, yes, they are determined to prove the villains for no sensible reason but solely to prove that they can, much the same mentality that accompanies canned hunts conducted with semi-automatic rifles - they aren't going to eat it, it's not particularly difficult (fish in a barrel) but it is supposed to prove some kind of manliness of the sort you go for when you have nothing and are nothing and you have to pop a bunch of viagra to have any fun. The grey wolves were and outside of that locus, mostly are doing much better, but the red wolf is hard against the wall and the eastern puma isn't here at all which is why we have some many goddamn deer. The lupine creatures do the ecological garbage collection, but the ability to appreciate anything beyond the end of one's nose is totally lacking in these chuckleheads.
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the pitter-patter of blood drops on the tin roof over my heart is ever constant
Yes this. Just last spring we caught sight of a pair of wolves above the cabin, and when I went outside in my slippers and robe I could hear them howl. To think of their fate, and to worry about snares when walking my dog, and to be living in this state right now, with a death cult in charge. It's beyond words.
I have been wrestling with how to express being wordless with grief for roughly one week now. I have also been wrestling with the intense grief that we feel when something like this happens. I have nothing more, but you're not alone in this.
The statewide Montana Republican caucus has no shortage of reactionaries, including some insidious, unethical wolf murderers, but it appears to me that Lincoln, Flathead, Lake, Sanders, Mineral and Ravalli hold the lion's share. My question is: Are there any competent Republican or Democratic candidates in those counties that can go head-to-head, and win? And will the rank-and-file living there even vote for competence?
I've found everything about this wolf story to be undiscussable because of the horror of it. And now they have grizzlies in their sights too. It is abject cruelty without a filter.
Love this … why is the camp fire important in expressing your grief? Am writing about fire and this intrigued me! If you have a mo drop me a line - would love to quote you if that’s ok? X
This further demonstrates the inability of States like Montana, Wisconsin and Idaho to 'manage' wildlife under their care. It should automatically set in motion a re-listing and more Federal oversight. (But don't think for a minute that these events (WI going over quota, MT encouraging park border killing, etc.) wasn't orchestrated for that exact response. Because such a response plays to their base - 'see the big, bad federal government is overreaching yet again'.)
I'm shocked and not shocked at the same time. Shocked that a government would allow such senseless slaughter for no reason (as you mentioned no discussion on balance, just violence), and sadly not shocked that there are people who love to do this. It's far worse than so called 'trophy hunting' (which I abhor), it's all about just killing. What is wrong with us as a species. I don't know what to, but I feel a sense of hopelessness (your last column). I am glad to see the ongoing discussions about co-existence, this act was not related to that it seems. I just don't understand the people in government in MT (and ID, I think it has similar law)
Thank you, Nia. I walk with you in a sense of grief. We are not being good ancestors.
"and a whole lot of barely disguised glee at the prospect of permissive violence, often via explicitly cruel methods, toward a species whom many human cultures have been bent on controlling or eliminating for centuries."
Oh, yes, they are determined to prove the villains for no sensible reason but solely to prove that they can, much the same mentality that accompanies canned hunts conducted with semi-automatic rifles - they aren't going to eat it, it's not particularly difficult (fish in a barrel) but it is supposed to prove some kind of manliness of the sort you go for when you have nothing and are nothing and you have to pop a bunch of viagra to have any fun. The grey wolves were and outside of that locus, mostly are doing much better, but the red wolf is hard against the wall and the eastern puma isn't here at all which is why we have some many goddamn deer. The lupine creatures do the ecological garbage collection, but the ability to appreciate anything beyond the end of one's nose is totally lacking in these chuckleheads.
elm
the pitter-patter of blood drops on the tin roof over my heart is ever constant
Yes this. Just last spring we caught sight of a pair of wolves above the cabin, and when I went outside in my slippers and robe I could hear them howl. To think of their fate, and to worry about snares when walking my dog, and to be living in this state right now, with a death cult in charge. It's beyond words.
I have been wrestling with how to express being wordless with grief for roughly one week now. I have also been wrestling with the intense grief that we feel when something like this happens. I have nothing more, but you're not alone in this.
The statewide Montana Republican caucus has no shortage of reactionaries, including some insidious, unethical wolf murderers, but it appears to me that Lincoln, Flathead, Lake, Sanders, Mineral and Ravalli hold the lion's share. My question is: Are there any competent Republican or Democratic candidates in those counties that can go head-to-head, and win? And will the rank-and-file living there even vote for competence?
I've found everything about this wolf story to be undiscussable because of the horror of it. And now they have grizzlies in their sights too. It is abject cruelty without a filter.
The wholesale killing of wolves is just blood lust, and it illustrates our separation from nature.