It all becomes just another example of how humans have totally fucked up the planet by reducing the predators and natural resources. Because of that, we can plead the merits of one killing over another, unnatural over nature taking its course, if it had been allowed. Sorry, LeeJ, not directed at you.

here are so many hunters up here who will use any excuse they can, it sickens me. (That, and when growing up on the Western Slope of Colorado, every Tom, Dick, and Harry went out in the hills, with loaded guns and booze, and someone ALWAYS got killed each season, mistaken for prey; hell one guy's burro, dressed totally in brilliant orange, was killed by a trigger-happy idiot!) All the while they don't give a good goddamn about the land and what causes the problems for the wildlife. I will NEVER understand, nor would I even try, a person who can kill beautiful creatures of nature.

There was a fringe movement a few years back that proposed making Wyoming and, I think, some of the rest of the high plains, into a national wildlife grasslands refuge, the WHOLE state, with no people, except those visiting. Some days, I'd love to see that, even though I know it is just a dream. I would love to see people stop their incessant romp across the prairie, up the sides of mountains, onto the beaches, etc. all over, consuming everything in sight, like an increasing and neverending wave of mutant locusts.

Oh, I found this soapbox, guess I'd better put it back. Sorry,

kat