[fabsroman]

Okay, I take issue to those of you that want to exterminate the wolf and/or think that its reintroduction was a mistake because they compete with us for game. At the end of the day, we need to think more like Teddy Roosevelt and we need to think about game conservation for the next generation rather than just what we ourselves have to shoot.

Now, game management will be needed. Elk were pretty much decimated in several areas and they were reintroduced. Whitetails were decimated in Maryland, but they have made a huge comeback and now they are causing huge crop damage and property damage (i.e., car accidents). Of course, it is now the deer hunter's hey day in Maryland, but everybody's interests need to be taken into consideration. Yeah, it was initially fun for people to say "Oh, look at the cute deer in the front yard." Now, they are saying "Oh my, look at the darn deer in the front yard eating the $1,000 landscaping. Get the gun." We have the same issue with resident canada geese. They were reintroduced several years ago and now they are a serious problem. The season comes in this year a month early and starts August 1 with a 15 bird limit and unplugged guns.

No game managers or bunny huggers want to lose all the elf, mule deer, caribou, moose, and whitetails, much less fido or fiffee, to the wolves. There are rancher interests involved and public safety too. Eventually, they will start to allow the hunting of wolves, but I find that the game managers are always a little behind on when to allow hunting and/or increase the bag limit. The wolves will kill a lot of elk and other animals before they start to allow hunting, but they will.

As far as Court cases are concerned, they tried to do the same thing in Maryland when they opened bear season again after several years of no bear hunting. The Judge held in favor of the hunting, and so should all Judges if the game authorities recommend it.

At the end of the day, I am entirely against professional hunting of wolves or anything else, but we do have it in Maryland with professional snipers killing whitetails at night. Whitetails are just a huge problem here, but there has been some serious crying from the tree huggers about the professional snipers.

If you guys want more hunting, go out and hunt the wolves when hunting is opened if there aren't as many elk. We need to keep in mind that hunting is not a necessity for most, but game preservation, of every species, is a necessity.