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CLEARLY WRESTLER CAN'T READ. SHARPSHOOTERS ARE NOT NORMALLY KNOWN AS "HUNTERS", BUT RATHER
ASSASSIN'S! SO, WOLVES, OR ASSASSIN'S OF ELK...HMMMMMMM.

sorry, wrestler, I did misunderstand you. however I would still prefer wolves in the area instead of hunters in the interest of restoring the balance of nature. There will always be hunters, but there may be a time when there are no wolves..and to me it is more important to keep an eye on the future of our planet.

People have a fear of wolves...they eat children (Little Red Riding hood), they kill sheep, cows and other livestock (movies). So many people do not realize that overpopulation means a slow death. So if it is hunters or wolves the death will be quick.

Why should the tax payers have to pay. Hunters have been BEGGING (myself included) for a hunting season in RMNP for elk. A limited number of tags could be issued each year according to the size of the herd. The Wildlife Division does that for other areas that get over populated, why not in RMNP? Let the hunters in!!! It will help the hunter put food on the table and help thin the herd at the same time..And they would NOT have to charge extra for the tags, although I know that the hunters will pay whtever the cost to hunt there, and the greedy BIG BROTHER will jump on the chance to profit off of the oportunity.

My Dad owned a sporting goods store when I was growing up, so my concern about hunting in RMNP is not about hunters, really, but I am concerned that most of the elk habitat is also where people congregate in the park. How would that be handled? Sharpshooters would be much more controlled. (I hope.) I don't know enough to really judge, but that may be why they don't open the elk habitat there to hunters. Also, as much as I love wolves, and agree that in a perfect world we would never have created such an ecological imbalance by removing them, I don't think, again, because of the human element in and around RMNP, that mass wolf re-introduction is feasible. They procreate quickly, and require very large territory. Just another can of worms. I do wish they were not going to hunt wolves outside Yellowstone, though- these are very social creatures with complex small societies, and I wish they could relocate packs instead to wide open spaces in Canada- I wouldn't mind paying for that with my tax dollars- better than 2M for a memorial bridge to Tip O'Neal or some such nonsense! And spcasm has a valid question that I would like to answered, too.

Open up a lottery drawing for tags. Hunters (my husband, dad, brothers, and etc.) would be more than willing to pay money for a chance to get one of them bad boys off thier hands.
Gee lets see here, government make money by haveing a lottery drawing and letting that meat feed happy families and not go to waste, or spend a crap load of money with the wolf BS. and let the carcasses go to waste and whatever meat the wolves leave behind. Sounds like another no brainer situation that the government cant make a decision about.

Ah, the childlike fascination with gunpowder. Another central nervous system addicted to killing. Setting an ambush for your soul? The human race will go mad without wildlife. Coyotes eat the meat but leave the bones for God. Old coyotes never die, they just get so old they turn into wisemen. Wildlife is another nation, they live by signals and senses we never attained or we lost at some point. Animals are fellow participants in this glory we call life. It's where you get your sense of bewilderment, awe, animation and mystery of life. I am glad I've never walked in your shoes as you look down your barrel at a member of Gods family. God being the intelligent source of the universe, not the biblical myth of God.