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| "Killer Bee": thewildlifenews.com |
This is one service for which you pay your federal taxes: aerial extermination of wolves. The photo of the "Killer Bee" was first posted on
The Wildlife News blog and the story expanded in the
LA Times. Look closely and you will see the number of "kills" pasted--fifty-eight--on the plane's engine cowling. You think these Department of Agriculture employees were fighter aces, not akin to the the guy who comes over to kill your cockroaches. The stickers were removed in 2009 in response to complaints about the
attitude they represent. That year the misnamed Wildlife Service, an agency of the US Department of Agriculture, removed 480 wolves. Because elk numbers are down in the Lolo region of Idaho, state officials are considering calling in the federal exterminators again. But conservationists insist that wolves are not totally to blame for fewer elk. Elk populations were declining due to lost habitat before wolves were reintroduced. Idahoans are unapologetic about their hatred of the wolf and say no apology from the agency was necessary. They just want the wolves dead.
