Mobilizing the Truth about Wolves
by Tony Mayer and Rick Mayer, Save Our Elk [here]
The major media tends to misrepresent the reality of wolf introduction. Unsubstantiated and inaccurate statements suggest that wolf control is the same as wholesale slaughter of wolves.
There is an alternate view. Knowledgeable wildlife experts like Dr Charles Kay, Dr Val Geist, Dr. Tom Bergerud, Mr. George Dovel, and many others express a more reasonable and scientific view of wolf control, but the main stream media rarely reports balance about wolves.
Filtered coverage by the media benefits organizations like Defenders of Wildlife, EarthJustice, Sierra Club, PETA, Western Watersheds, and several others who have ulterior agendas, enhancing their fund raising.
The best way for facts about wolves to prevail is to begin playing the game in the same way by finding effective ways to get our message out. We have created the SaveElk.com website for just that purpose. We are attempting to inform the public about the devastation that expanding wolf populations are causing to our region.
I encourage you to visit the Save Our Elk website [here]. Please review the information presented there. We challenge the systematic eradication of our native ungulate wildlife by uncontrolled wolves.
Although we are up against huge money-raising machines, we are doing we can to get the facts out to effect positive change in public opinion. We sincerely hope that common sense will prevail once the facts are out for everyone to see.
Please help us. Contact your local media, write letters to your newspapers, contact your radio stations, contact your kids teachers, rally your sportsman groups, call and write your legislators and your governor, inform your Fish and Wildlife representatives. This issue is urgent and its time that we all do our part.
Hello. First off I really enjoy your web site. I live in British Columbia in the West Kootenays at the north end of Kootenay Lake. We now have wolves from a transplant that happened in the mid 90’s to Idaho. Some of these wolves returned home to central B.C. but 9 stayed in our valley. One wolf was shot and the collar retrieved. This is how we know they were part of the transplant. I can relate to your situation. We have not had a wolf presence here since the 50’s. The population keeps getting bigger, and from one who spends a lot of time watching wildlife, it is kind of sad. Not much one can do but wait it out.