Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers

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1. To get around paywall- https://archive.is/WogCW

2. Those adjectives are not mutually exclusive.

3. They enhance the environment by being the guardians of nature, i.e. by eating the animals that will over reproduce and destroy the plant life in the area.

4. If you ask a rancher, they will tell you they shoot wolves because they need to protect their livelihood (i.e. cows). For much of the year I grow a lot of my own food and I compete with overpopulated deer for the harvest thanks to a shortage of wolves. So, by their own rationalle, if they shoot the wolves, my livelihood is impacted too, but I don’t go around shooting anyone.

5. Wolves have gotten a bad rap in our western culture. Many of us were raised with the stories of the “Big, Bad, Wolf”. Hopefully that is starting to change.

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