Idaho gray wolf 'killing derby' canceled after environmental groups sue Guardian UK
The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible lose one.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/idaho-gray-wolf-hunt-derby-canceled
The US Bureau of Land Management has canceled a hunting derby that targeted the Rocky Mountain gray wolf, among several other animals, after environmental groups sued the federal agency.
“BLM’s first-ever approval of a wolf-killing derby on public lands undermines wolf recovery in the Northern Rockies and was not in the public interest,” said Laird Lucas, director of litigation at Advocates for the West, one of the environmental groups suing.
Up to 500 hunters could have participated in the hunting derby, scheduled to take place in January on three million acres of federally owned wilderness. Hunters could have taken a nearly unlimited number of wolves, skunks, weasels, starlings, raccoons, coyotes and jackrabbits. The derby would have taken place over three days annually, for the next five years.
Those organizing the derby, Idaho for Wildlife, argued that the competition was meant to be a kind of winter outing for hunters as young as 10, and that those who were against the derby didn’t understand the western way of life. The president of Idaho for Wildlife also said calling the event a “killing derby,” ignored how difficult wolves are to hunt, and said that none would have likely been killed.
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