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Please take time to read this journal entry. I was given
permission from another fellow wolf lover to use it on my page.
This is a beautiful story of love and devotion between humans and wolves!
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Once, this creature, this wolf, was my pet. I raised him
from a pup, and he was NOT a danger to anyone, but the state decided -- because he was a full-blooded wolf, and not a hybrid
as I was led to believe when I purchased him -- they decided he needed to be "put down". This magnificent creature played
with my children when they were just toddlers, neever once even growling towards them. Yes, he was a huge creature, because
unlike in the wild, he ate well every day. He could pull trees through the woods, and he could certainly go where he pleased,
if he ever had chosen too. I loved this wolf with as much of my heart, as I've ever loved anything, or anyone. We were brothers,
so to speak. Apparently, he even viewed me as the "alpha male', for he would never take food from my hand, he never barked,
but Lord did he try his best to talk,  . Yes he would howl once in a great while, but I lived on a 10 acre spread of land, surrounded by fence. He was my families
protector, and I was his. Only my closest friends ever entered my yard when he was present, for they knew he was always obedient,
and trustful. I have never met a man, in all of the travels I have undertaken, who would trust as much as I trusted this animal.
Every relationship I shared when he was alive, has now been broken, except one, that of my closest friend. It was almost
as if that loving animal, kept us all in touch with one another. I miss that "gracious wolf", who loved me as no other person
or animal ever has. I really sometimes think that part of my soul perished with him.
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A Great Victory For The Mountain Wolves
BILLINGS, Mont. - A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves
in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy granted a preliminary injunction late Friday restoring
the protections for the wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Molloy will eventually decide whether the injunction should
be permanent.
The region has an estimated 2,000 gray wolves. They were removed from the endangered species
list in March, following a decade-long restoration effort.
Environmentalists sued to overturn the decision, arguing wolf numbers would plummet if hunting
were allowed. They sought the injunction in the hopes of stopping the hunts and allowing the wolf population to continue expanding.
"There were fall hunts scheduled that would call for perhaps as many as 500 wolves to be
killed. We're delighted those wolves will be saved," said attorney Doug Honnold with Earthjustice, who had argued the case
before Molloy on behalf of 12 environmental groups.
In his ruling, Molloy said the federal government had not met its standard for wolf recovery,
including interbreeding of wolves between the three states to ensure healthy genetics.
"Genetic exchange has not taken place," Molloy wrote in the 40-page decision.
Molloy said hunting and state laws allowing the killing of wolves for livestock attacks would
likely "eliminate any chance for genetic exchange to occur."
The federal biologist who led the wolf restoration program, Ed Bangs, defended the decision
to delist wolves as "a very biologically sound package."
"The hunting of wolves clearly wouldn't endanger threatened wolf populations," Bangs said
Friday. "We felt the science was rock solid and that the delisting was warranted."
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