Wolves not to blame (Yukon News, Sept 17/08)

Re: Put bounty on wolves (News. Sept 10).

Bounty hunting? What century our we in? This would be a great way to drive wolves to the brink of extinction!

One letter writer (News. Sept, 10) said that there is an "estimated 10,000 wolves following" caribou, and murdering 30 to 40 percent of them (the wolves) could "perhaps conserve" the caribou" to maintain a way of life" for some humans. This would obviously bring death for many nonhumans (and is a comment only a speciest could make).

First, Mr Holway: where did you get 10,000 wolves from? A bumper sticker, perhaps? I think you have missed the point of the article;" Orchestrated slaughter threatens Porcupine caribou" (News. Sept 5). What the two men witnessed (and I applaud them for speaking out and having the guts to blame humans) was the wholesale slaughter of caribou by a bunch of so-called hunters using high-tech gear to wage war on them. And this has happened already far too many times in the past. It appears to be an annual ritual,as a matter of fact. And all the "stewards of the land" have yet to do anything proactive to stop this madness. Torrie Hunter, the manager for conservation officers who monitor northern Yukon said, "We're fairly limited by what we can do, enforcement-wise."-(News. Sept 5) There you go! No law made-no law broken, i guess. Conservation officers can only enforce laws that exist: they only do what they are told.

I have personally witnessed (and I have photos and video footage) how some so-called "subsistence hunters" operate in NWT: It is plain murder! Caribou are killed indiscriminately (including pregnant cows), in large numbers, and many of their carcasses are left to rot, sometimes with just the hindquarters removed, other times abandoned intact, others left to suffer and die later on from gun shot wounds.

Ron Holway, you need not concern yourself with what wolves are doing--there are other bigger issues at stake: humans and the lust to kill! Humans have created this crisis and we need to start looking ourselves as a part of nature (not separate) and start given back instead of always taking from her by killing anyone (animals) we want to.

Wolves have existed for many thousands of years amongst all wildlife and have not caused extinction to another species. What a mess we have made in just a couple of hundred years with our technology.

Time to wake to the evils that humans do!

Stop blaming the wolves!

Mike Grieco