More on Wolf Killer and ID Forest Service Employee Josh Bransford: Another Modern Monster

Reblog from multiple sources:

 

 

Wolf Torture and Execution Continues in the Northern Rockies

by James William Gibson – March 28, 2012

 

 

Montana Anti-Trapping Group Gets Death Threat for Releasing Photos
On March 16, a Friday, a US Forest Service employee from Grangeville, Idaho, laid out his wolf traps. The following Monday, using the name “Pinching,” he posted his story and pictures on www.Trapperman.com . “I got a call on Sunday morning from a FS [Forest Service] cop that I know. You got one up here as there was a crowd forming. Several guys had stopped and taken a shot at him already,” wrote Pinching. The big, black male wolf stood in the trap, some 300-350 yards from the road, wounded—the shots left him surrounded by blood-stained snow. Pinching concluded his first post, “Male that went right at 100 pounds. No rub spots on the hide, and he will make me a good wall hanger.”

(The person in this photograph, Josh Bransford is a federal employee and public servant out of the Red River Ranger District on the Nez Perce National Forest in north-central Idaho. As a taxpayer, you have a right to call the Front Desk and complain about his behavior. Call for his resignation and/or ask that he be suspended without pay for a period of time for his actions 208-842-2245.)

All photographs were taken from Trapperman.com website are being reproduced here under Fair Use“Pinching” with the wolf he trapped that he wrote would make him “a good wall hanger.”
The Trapperman website went wild with comments. “That’s a dandy!! Keep at it,” wrote Watarrat. Otterman asked, “All the gray on that muzzle make a guy wonder how old he is or if it is just part of his black coloring.” Pinching’s picture of the wolf’s paw caught in the trap got special attention. “Is that the MB750 stamped ‘wolf’ on the pan?” asked one man. “Looks to be a perfect pad catch. Congratulations! Pinching confirmed the trap model and commented, “Oh an [sic] by the way, a wolf is a heck of a lot of work to put on a stretcher! Man those things hold on to their hide like no other!”

By late March some 117 Idaho wolves had been killed in traps and snares, and another 251 shot. Montana saw 166 killed, for a total of 534 wolves out of an estimated 1150 in the two states. Although Montana’s season ended in February, Idaho is not quite done. Both states have announced plans for increased hunting in the 2012-2013, and discussions are underway among hunting groups and state officials to allow private donations to establish wolf bounties.

Wolf’s paw in trap.
As recently as the spring of 2011, gray wolves in the Northern Rockies received protection from he Endangered Species Act. But in April, 2011 Congress passed a rider on a federal appropriations bill removing them. Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester, facing a 2012 challenge from Republican Congressman Danny Rehberg, wanted to show Democrats hated wolves just as much as Republicans. Conservation groups filed suit in Montana’s federal district court, claiming the delisting represented an unconstitutional infringement by Congress on the judicial branch while it deliberated an ongoing lawsuit over federal wolf protection.
Losing in district court, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, WildEarth Guardians, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Cascadia Wildlands appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit. On March 14, the appeals court rejected their arguments, upholding the Congressional wolf delisting as a lawful amendment. This decision might well mark the endpoint for the conservation movement’s decades-long fundamental strategy of litigating in federal courts to promote wolf recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

A hunter and his dead prey.
Thus wolves, demonized by the far-right in the Rockies as disease-ridden monsters and icons of the federal government (see my Summer 2011 Journal story, “Cry Wolf”), now face a brutal campaign to radically reduce their numbers so far that extermination can not be ruled out. Idaho’s Governor Butch Otter declared in a March 25 news conference that his state faced a “disaster emergency” from wolves. “We don’t want them here.”
Skirmishing on the web escalates. Footloose Montana, an anti-trapping group, posted the trapped wolf’s pictures on its website, drawing over a 1,000 comments within days. Word spread. Nabeki, founder of Howling for Justice, opined that “This wolf will be the face of the cruelty and ugliness that is the Idaho hunt…Our forests are hiding acts of unspeakable horrors that are being perpetuated on innocent animals.” Protesters called Idaho and Montana tourist bureaus, demanding the hunts end. By Monday, March 26, Trapperman learned that its photos now circulated offsite. The group’s administrator demanded that Footloose Montana remove the photographs.
Footloose staff and board members also received an anonymous death threat in their email: “I would like to donate [sic] a gun to your childs [sic] head to make sure you can watch it die slowly so I can have my picture taken with it’s [sic] bleeding dying screaming for mercy body. YOU WILL BE THE TARGET NEXT BITCHES!”
FBI agents and Missoula, Montana police received copies of the threat.
Wolf advocates hope that these pictures will go viral, shaming a nation into facing the torture people inflict on animals and the moral and political failures that promote and legitimize it.
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*** FURTHER ACTION / UPDATE – 03/04/2012 ***
ID Forest Service employee and trapper, Josh Bransford, had nothing better to do than to pose in front of a wolf caught in one of his leghold trap – the wolf had already been shot a couple of times while he was helplessly caught in Bransford’s trap! This brutal and callous behavior, particularly when displayed by an agency employee, whose salary we pay, is unacceptable. For more information, scroll down to read John Adams’ article in the Great Falls Tribune. Thank you for your help! Your friends at Footloose Montana
Please voice your opinion about this tragedy and call or send an e-mail today!
Here is some contact information. Please be respectful:
Nez Perce National Forest: Forest Supervisor Rick Brazell (208) 983-7000 / rbrazell@fs.fed.us
Deputy Forest Supervisor Ralph Rau (208) 983-7017 / rerau@fs.fed.us
Fire Management: Bob Lippincott (208) 983-4066 / blippincott@fs.fed.us
Public Affairs: Laura Smith (208) 983-5143 / lasmith@fs.fed.us
Idaho Fish and Game: Director Virgil Moore: virgil.moore@idfg.idaho.gov
Idaho Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore: (208) 334-3771.
Please sign this petition, which will be sent to:
USDA Office of Ethics Forestry Ethics Branch(Lorraine (Rainee) Luciano, Branch Chief Agency: U.S. Forest Service) and UDSA Forest Service Chief(Tom Tidwell)
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-torture-of-wolves-in-our-forests
Photos of live, trapped wolf prompt threats to Missoula-based group
A photo downloaded from an online trapping forum shows an Idaho trapper posing in front of a wolf that was caught in a foot-hold trap and then allegedly shot at by bystanders. Missoula-based anti-trapping group members say they received death threats after posting the photo on their Facebook page. PHOTO COURTESY EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL.
HELENA — A Missoula-based anti-trapping organization said it received a threatening email this month after the group posted graphic photos on the Internet of a live Idaho wolf caught in a foot-hold trap.
Anja Heister, executive director of Footloose Montana, on March 22 posted a series of photos gleaned from an online trapping forum called Trapperman.com on her personal and Footloose Montana Facebook sites.
Heister said she opened Footloose Montana’s email inbox on Monday and found what she believed to be a death threat directed at family members of the organization:
“I would like to donate (sic) a gun to your childs (sic) head to make sure you can watch it die slowly so I can have my picture taken with it’s (sic) bleeding dying screaming for mercy body. YOU WILL BE THE TARGET NEXT BITCHES!” the message read.
Heister said the email was in response to the group posting photos of a northern Idaho trapper’s March 18 wolf kill, which was detailed on the online trapping forum.
The photos show trapper Josh Bransford, a fire management officer for the Nez Perce National Forest, kneeling and smiling for the camera as a wolf he caught in a foot-hold trap stands behind him in a ring of blood-soaked snow. Another photo shows a close-up of the wolf’s paw caught in the trap. A third photo shows the trapper posing with his catch.
Heister said Footloose Montana, which is actively campaigning to ban trapping in Montana, has received plenty of hostile emails and phone calls since 2007 but never anything that rose to this level.
“It has a cumulative effect on your psyche,” Heister said. “I’m not easily scared, but when I read this I got really concerned.”
Heister said she reported the threatening email to local and federal law enforcement officials. Missoula Police Sgt. Travis Welch confirmed the department received the report of the malicious email and that it was assigned to an investigator, but he declined to comment further.
In an online blog on Earth Island Journal’s website, writer James William Gibson recounted what Bransford — who goes by the handle “Pinching” — wrote about the photos. Bransford’s post has since been removed.
“I got a call on Sunday morning from a FS (Forest Service) cop that I know. You got one up here,” the post said, and then continued, “there was a crowd forming. Several guys had stopped and taken a shot at him already,” the post read, according to Gibson.
According to Bransford the wolf was a 100-pound male with “no rub spots” making an “good wall hanger.”
Bransford did not return calls or emails seeking comment Thursday.
As of late Thursday the photos posted on Footloose Montana’s Facebook page had received nearly 900 comments. Online commenters on both the Earth Island Journal and the Footloose Montana Facebook page expressed outrage over the photos. Many viewers were angry Bransford posed for a portrait with the wounded wolf before killing it.
Dave Linkhart, spokesman for the National Trappers Association, said there’s nothing wrong with a trapper posing with his catch before killing the animal.
“You pose with a successful catch just like you do with a successful hunt,” Linkhart said. “People make the problem of attributing human feelings and emotions to these animals.”
Linkhart claimed trapped animals don’t suffer, so taking the time to shoot a photograph does not cross ethical boundaries.
“If you look at the trap — across the pad of the foot like that — if you were to release the animal it would walk away like nothing happened,” Linkhart said.

 

Editor: Here’s what my former professor had to say about this (and Linkhart’s ridiculous comment above):
Marc Bekoff is a former professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and fellow of the Animal Behavior Society who has studied the social behavior of wolves and coyotes, among other animals.
“That wolf was suffering immeasurably. Not only physically by having his foot locked in a trap, but also being shot at,” said Bekoff, the author of several books on animal psychology and emotion. “This was not hunting. This was having an animal having its foot smashed in trap and then shooting at it with bullets. This wolf was tortured.”
Linkhart said if the wolf was shot at, that isn’t the trapper’s fault.
“Somebody else came up there and shot that animal first. That is illegal. What the trapper has done here is not,” Linkhart said. “The problem was not the trap. It was the illegal activity of the hunters who shot at that wolf.”
Reach Tribune Capital Bureau Chief John S. Adams at 442-9493, or jadams@greatfallstribune.com. Follow him on Twitter @TribLowdown.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20120330/NEWS01/203300316/Photos-live-trapped-wolf-prompt-threats-Missoula-based-grou

Editor: I have spoken with Bransford’s USFS Supervisor Ralph Rau.  The concern I expressed has not to do with the legality of trapping the animal but with Bransford’s failure to adhere to ethical trapping practices when he arrived at the trap site.  These call for the immediate and “humane” dispatch of the trapped animal.  I fail to see how posing for a photo opportunity complies with these guidelines.  I’d like Linkhart to explain how it does?  Further, contrary to what Linkhart says, hunters pose with their kills post-mortem.  Why couldn’t bransford have made the least attempt to minimize the massive suffering of this animal?  It is on these grounds that I am requesting that he lose his hunting and trapping privileges and also be subject to prosecution for cruelty to animals.  If you share my views, please contact those people listed above and express your concerns about the actions of a federal employee and how he is treating animals.

 

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248 Responses to More on Wolf Killer and ID Forest Service Employee Josh Bransford: Another Modern Monster

  1. admin says:

    I never said he’d been found of wrongdoing but primarily because no one in the department above him did more than the most cursory investigation (as in none). What I said is that it is highly likely that he either failed to follow the trapping guidelines by checking his traps at least every 72 hours as required, or because he was checking his traps while on the clock. Based upon Bransford’s own statements on Trapperman.com he had between 75-150 traps out. Ask any goverment trapper and they’ll tell you you can’t check every single one of that many traps every 72 hours unless you are spending hours a day checking traps. His story is inconsistent with both of the above facts being true.

  2. admin says:

    If you’re stupid enough to pose with trapped and injured animal in the background while you mug like an idiot for the camera, and then you’re ignorant enough to post about your “accomplishment” — complete with photographic proof of your cruelty and failure to treat the animal “humanely”, then you absolutely deserve to be tried in the court of public opinion. And frankly, Rose, anyone that would stand up for someone like Bransford also deserves whatever abuse the public chooses to dish out.

  3. admin says:

    Bravo, Rita. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

  4. Shelley says:

    Justin and Rose. I understand that every person has their own opinion and I respect that but could you please explain to me how that treatment of an animal is humane or what enjoyment this man is getting from this animal suffering, which is obvious from the smile on his face. The fact that he thought to take a picture says alot about his character. To allow any living thing to suffer for his amusement is insane! The wolf is suffering, right? It does not make it any less horrible because he is on PRIVATE PROPERTY! You have to understand how that picture looks and how it offends people!

  5. Shelley says:

    You go Rita! Its a shame because no matter what we say idiots will still remain idiots.

  6. Shelley says:

    Justin, you are confused! It is obvious that you do not know the difference between trapping and hunting!

  7. Shelley says:

    Too bad ignorance is painful!

  8. Justin says:

    Shelley, I am not confused, I am not stupid. I know the difference as I am a hunter and I also trap. I have never thought to pose for a pic in front of a trapped animal tho. I’m not saying he was right for the pic, but we still have the right to hunt and trap with the right permits and that will never be changed.

  9. Justin says:

    Shelley, I guess if anyone knows that ignorance is painful it would be you. Only an ignorant bitch would say something like that, I know more about hunting and trapping than you ever will.

  10. Justin says:

    Admin, I know you didn’t say that wolf attacks were a thing of the past, you said “wolves don’t kill people, people kill wolves” I posted that on here from a dnr website just to prove your previous comment was untrue.

  11. admin says:

    Justin, at best it’s wolves 2, humans half a million. I stand by my original statement. By the way, use profanity directed at another commenter again and I’ll ban you from posting further.

  12. Sharon Dumas says:

    You reap what you sow fool! Someday, when you face God, HE’LL WIPE THAT SMIRK OF YOUR FACE!

  13. Nikki DesChamps - Ex-Cass County Animal Control Officer says:

    Mr. Mouse: catching an animal in a trap and then shooting him while trapped is NOT “hunting.” ….but then………… hunting is not a sport. In a sport both sides should know they are in the game.

  14. Justin says:

    No that is not called hunting, that is called trapping. Just because you don’t consider hunting or trapping a sport don’t mean that it isn’t. And just because people hunt or trap doesn’t make us any less human than those of you that don’t, and it doesn’t give you the right to insult us or make threats to us. And if anyone is going to be burning in hell it will be the people who are running this kind of site. Go ahead and ban me from posting on this site I don’t give a shit you people are the ones that need to find a different hobby I don’t have time for people like you.

  15. admin says:

    Justin, I told you I’d ban you for using profanity towards another person making comments on the site.

    I’d like to point out that you directly contradict yourself by saying you “don’t have time for people like us” while spending at least some time commenting on the site. If you had no time for “us” (whomever “us” is) then you wouldn’t have bothered to comment in the first place, no?

  16. Yvette Wiley says:

    The first problem is not this guys’ henious act and his stupidity, arrogance, and pride of over his kill. The first problem is that trapping is legal. The second problem is that our species still has a long way to evolve before it becomes 100% unacceptable to hunt, harm and torture other sentinet beings with no reason other than for the sheer joy of watching them suffer. That appears to be this guys biggest problem. He’ve extremely low on the evolutionary path. Many of you have been conditioned to believe that trapping an non-human animal is acceptable. You’ve grown up with it, so you are conditioned to believing it is acceptable. It is not. Some know deep within themselves that trapping is a heinous form of killing. Yet, since you have been conditioned by your society’s mores you justify the torture by erronous statements about wolves killing livestock and eating humans. Wolves may kill a calf from time to time but it is not currently a huge problem. It is an excuse for the killers to hunt and denegrate the wolf species.

    It is past time for humans to stop torturing other species in the quest to enjoy killing. Eat what you kill, and only kill what you need. This Josh fella needs to lose his job and be kept from ever working in the FW field ever again. He should be a pariah. Unfortunately, he will not because humans have not yet evolved to that level.

  17. KTZ says:

    I hope someone reads this who has been in touch with or plans to write US Fed / State officials. As a Federal Employee, Josh Bransford is bound by the “14 Principals of Ethical Conduct for Federal Employees” which can be found at: http://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics/generalf.htm

    (14) Employees shall endeavor to avoid any actions creating the appearance that they are violating the law or the ethical standards set forth in the Standards of Ethical Conduct. Whether particular circumstances create an appearance that the law or these standards have been violated shall be determined from the perspective of a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts.

    There’s no doubt that Josh Bransford violated this ethic, and if you look at a couple of the other Principals, you can see how his actions can be considered to have been in violation of them as well.

    Not sure if this helps, but perhaps word can get out?

  18. admin says:

    This is very useful information. I plan to bring it to the attention of people that may be able to put it to use.

    Thanks.

  19. MALA WHITE says:

    I CANT BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. Tracey Tennis says:

    I have one question I’ve never been able to get wolf hunters to answer.
    I grew up in the country this trapper lives in. I vividly remember my friend’s calves getting killed by cougars . Heck, even now with wolves back in Idaho, I bet the big cats show more aggressive behavior toward people, pets & livestock than wolves do.
    Where is this intense hatred towards cougars?

  21. Allen Hartley says:

    Cursed are all those who murder that which is sacred. Josh Bradford, his kind, and all those associated with and support him are especially cursed. I will place a pole of niding and curse them with ancient powers that will not fail. Their actions are unhonorable, cowardly, and evil.

  22. Barbara Stehman says:

    beautiful animal…is this person proud to have killed it? I don’t understand where the thrill comes from to kill such an intelligent magnificent animal. If this wolf was one step removed from it’s wildness it would be resting at your feet in front of a winters fire.
    Our dogs came from wolves, we tend to have similar attachments and family units. How can you kill an animal that is so similar to us? Have you no understanding?
    This fellow I see here in the photo that has just been killed was taken from the natural world where he had a job to do to keep the natural balance of things.
    Sorry you killed him, really so sorry.

  23. dlinnane says:

    A public servant representing the agency he works for. What an absolutely disgusting portrayal of what’s wrong with state run wildlife agencies with no oversight. Horse’s Ass should be stripped of his rank and promoted to toilets…even that would be too good of a job for him.

  24. Jim C. says:

    I assume people know that YouTube is full of videos showing low-lifes gloating over trapped animals, and often killing them toward the end of the video. Just search for “trap” or “trapping” and the name of a species. YouTube continues to allow those videos, against their upload guidelines, so someone in management is coddling this crass activity. It goes well beyond rural ideology when it’s enabled by a prominent website, owned by Google, no less.

  25. Jim C. says:

    For Barbara: All you need to do to understand wildlife serial killers is watch a few WWII Nazi camp documentaries. Man is a dangerous, evil creature on many levels.

    Anyone who hasn’t spent a little time on YouTube watching “hunting” videos can get a quick education in human”kind” by doing so. It is a major travesty that such videos are allowed to remain. YouTube remains oddly silent on why (it’s probably all about ad revenue). Their guidelines clearly prohibit that type of carnage.

  26. ben says:

    if you all have such a problem with this then why not go out and do something insted of posting how bad and inhumain this is on here when it really isnt if wolves had the chance we do thay would do the same if not worse dont forget that just because they are omnivores they still prefer meat over anything els and would eat us alive if given the chance

  27. admin says:

    Ben you’re truly misinformed about wolves. I’ve studied them, worked with them and raised them for nearly 30 years. We’ve killed over a million wolves in the last 2 hundred years while wolves *may* have killed two people (both under very peculiar circumstances). It isn’t us that have to fear wolves, but other humans and people as ignorant as you that spread fear, misunderstanding and doubt about wolves. Besides, from behind your computer screen and probably in the middle of some urban area you hardly need to fear wolves, though there’s plenty outside you should be worried about…

    PS: humans are omnivores, wolves are carnivores. There’s a difference. Look it up.

  28. moai Von Dutch says:

    Josh Bransford’s mother sucks cocks in Hell.

  29. Worst picture I’ve ever seen. Made me sick. I wish I could have helped that wolf. A lake of blood with a devil up from hell smiling into the camera. I hope this man goes to jail for the rest of his life. I live in Pa and can’t do much about it. He’s the “Shame of Idaho.”
    I am going to e-mail the governor of Idaho about this, and boycott their potatoes, which I’ve eaten since childhood. I never knew such creeps lived there. I thought it was “God’s good country.”

  30. Montana Landowner says:

    Why stop at boycotting potatoes? Don’t eat beef. Don’t eat lamb. Boycott anything produced by the ranching community, unless the producer can prove that it is friendly to your values, particularly if it was produced on taxpayer subsidized public land. Consider purchasing wolf tags, elk tags, trapping permits…and burn them. Occupy the forest. Go for a hike. Buy remote land and post ‘no hunting’ on it. When traveling, spend your tourist dollars only with businesses who represent your values.

  31. Admin says:

    Your not normal, you enjoy killing the defenseless, you hide after a rifle why don’t you try to kill it with your hand

  32. Sam hunt says:

    Obviously this guy needs to get some help. If your going to do that you really have some mental problems, that’s just sick. How do you find joy that, it’s disgusting. I’m okay with hunting but you need to do it with your own two feet and tracking skills, that’s just pathetic. The reason you can actually get a shot the animals is because you tied it down. So I don’t know what your trying to prove, all you have shown is that you are gross human being. I honestly feel bad for your family. I really hope you get the help you need.

  33. kim darnell says:

    So it was trapped n suffering n either should have been released or killed imnediately. I have nothing against hunters as long as u do it humanely, AND for a goid reason, but trapping js not humane. How responsible would these asshole like THIS asshole feel if a hiker was to step into one of those traps? And this guy works for the forest service? I thought you had to respect the world around you? This is the same as a doctor who does his jib only for the money…

  34. Roxanna Wilkinson says:

    Any updates as to the current status of his job?? Did he get fired? This story is making the rounds again and a lot of people would like to know.

  35. Charyl says:

    He needs to be relived of his duties. A FS employee who posts pics such as this has no regard for his environment or his job description, which states, ” to protect and maintaining and caring for the forest, these workers are responsible for increasing the overall health of the forest so that they will be here for generations to enjoy in wonderment.” He clearly violated this trust!!!

  36. sandra stevens says:

    this makes me sick I almost lost my lunch and that there is a whole website for these people everyday I lose my faith in humanity more and more what kind off man puts a trap a man that does not care what steps on it was one off the most majestic off animals he caught. An animal he was supposed to protect. but it could have been you or your dog in that trap. trophy hunters are sub human’s I live next to a bird reservation that is open to hunting now I always find dogs around this time of year dogs that did not preform dead dogs shot by their hunter master. to take a live for a coat that does not belong to you is abomination.

  37. LoveYourDNA says:

    Reminds me of this story which made headlines here in NorCal!
    http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/08/08/33720/killing-cougar-may-be-legal-idaho-its-political-su/

  38. Rainy says:

    I don’t know how anyone could find this acceptable! Murdering such a beautiful animal and in such a violent and brutal manner is absolutely sick and twisted!

  39. Skinhead says:

    Fuck that bitch

  40. kevin ocallaghan says:

    I would prefer child molesters and pornographers in my world than have to live amongst wolf killers. Fuck you! KO.

  41. Theresashark says:

    Admin, is there any update on this situation?as this appears to be 18 months old. Is there any relief as to the ethical standing of the federal employee?

  42. jcutie says:

    So to date, does this guy still have his job?

  43. Tina says:

    God put some animals here to feed other animals or ourselves but not to torture !! Be real men and women and hunt the way it was intended not trap a helpless animal then torture and gloat . There are absolutely no words that I could say here for this man that would be decent. He should be punished.

  44. T. Milne says:

    I’m Australian, and I have no concept of how anyone could believe there is no suffering if animals are hurt in any way at all… I am astounded at this level of self justified murder… and that’s what it is, in no uncertain terms… This absolute baseness of humanity, and more than cretin killing of innocent animals, shows me the definite level of intelligence that goes with this type of activity… There will be nothing good and wholesome left for our children to appreciate on this earth soon… I really hope that this type of man is not the type that America holds in any type of reverence, as he is is not even nearly human…

  45. Arvid Nemo says:

    Actually, that guy is doing what people have been doing for tens of thousands of years….killing wolves. It’s only in the past few years that people have been complaining about killing wolves. Which brings us to the question, “Who do we trust, the people who holler about how cruel we are to the wolves, or to the hundreds of generations who preceded us on earth?”

  46. AR Mom says:

    I just called the office at 208-983-1963 and was told that he violated no laws and that he does still work for them. The woman I spoke to felt it was in poor taste of him to post the photo, but other than that they feel he did nothing wrong.

  47. layla says:

    there is a sure fire way to know if trapping is ok justin , you think its ok right ? then you will not mind if your leg is in that trap right , coz its acceptable to do that to a being that feels pain isn’t it ? if u would place yourself in another beings situation u would know this is not acceptable , you are in fact cruel , to do such a thing , when my people kill for food we do it as quick and painless as we can , why because we respect life , sadly people of European descent you tend to be cruel , guess u have no feelings for anything but u

  48. How do these idiots get away with such atrocity, they are morons!~~ Proof that they were brought up without morals or respect for anything including themselves!~

  49. Robert C Bonanno says:

    This whole thing is not about who knows more than anyone about hunting and trapping,or about humans transferring their emotions to an animal: This whole thing is about cruelty,lack of respect for breathing,living ,sentient beings,who know a lot more about survival and hunting than 99 percent of the burliest toughest hunters and trappers out there.I cannot remember who wrote it,but I agree with them: One day we will all be judged according to our actions while on this earth,and as I get older I understand that,more and more.I *DO* fear GOD and I don’t want to stand before the Holy one and tell him how I juggernauted thru HIS planet killing and plundering all for my names’ sake and not exercising love,tolerance and mercy.GOD help you,and you know who I’m talking to…

  50. Brad Riedel says:

    Bring your punk Ass out to Michigan! I’m a 4 time Expert Marksman in the Military! I’ll hang your ass like that Wolf Punk!!!

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