Athttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☝️" title="Zeigefinger nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Zeigefinger nach oben">time, before https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> was settled by Europeans, they numbered btwn. 250K-2 mil in 48 contiguous states.

Ranchers near Yellowstone complain there are 1700 now.
But they’re crammed in 3 states near the park bc neighbor states won’t reintroduce them.
#wolves https://missionwolf.org/wild-wolves/ ">https://missionwolf.org/wild-wolv...

Apex predators, like them or not, exist in ecosystems for a reason.

#wolvesmatter

When wolves leave Yellowstone they are fair game for ranchers.

There has to be a balance, & ranchers need to do a better job protecting their property, instead of blaming nature.

How do you coexist w/ other predators when your goal is to eliminate them?

Need better solutions.

Hilary Zaranek & Andrew Anderson are ranchers that have learned to change their cattle practices (herding) to coexist with wolves.

Ranchers tell conservationists that ppl who don’t live in MT don’t have to “deal” w/ https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐺" title="Wolfsgesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wolfsgesicht">s—the truth is every creature on https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌍" title="Europa-Afrika auf dem Globus" aria-label="Emoji: Europa-Afrika auf dem Globus"> is connected, intimately or not. It’s the nature of ecology.

It’s ignorant to say https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐺" title="Wolfsgesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Wolfsgesicht">a are their property bc they reside in their state. No one owns the wolf

Pollen causes allergies so should we try to exterminate https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💐" title="Blumenstrauß" aria-label="Emoji: Blumenstrauß">s?
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐝" title="Honigbiene" aria-label="Emoji: Honigbiene">s are already threatened.

Birds https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💩" title="Dreckshaufen" aria-label="Emoji: Dreckshaufen"> on my https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚗" title="Auto" aria-label="Emoji: Auto"> , so sd. we kill as many as we can?
Enjoy insect overpopulation?

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦈" title="Hai" aria-label="Emoji: Hai">s kill ppl.
Sd we hunt them until ocean ecosystems collapse?

Are these solutions?
Do better humanity.

I’m not Xtian but here are scriptures that Christian ranchers missed.

“For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.”
-Psalm 50:10

God created...sea creatures & every...creature...w/ which the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💦" title="Schweißtropfen" aria-label="Emoji: Schweißtropfen">s swarm & every...https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐦" title="Vogel" aria-label="Emoji: Vogel">...God saw that it was good”
-Gen 1:21

And more RE: caring for wildlife

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">
https://www.openbible.info/topics/caring_for_animals">https://www.openbible.info/topics/ca...

Shout out to @nywolforg for doing the real work!

Please consider donating something, even if small.

I did. I put my $$ where my mouth was:)

Wolves are worth saving, if not for their beauty, then at least for their role in ecology. https://nywolf.org"> https://nywolf.org 

Here’s proof

Final note: If you go to Yellowstone & have the luck to see https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☝️" title="Zeigefinger nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Zeigefinger nach oben">, please keep your distance.

In addition to scaring them off, they are wild predators that should be treated w/ a healthy fear.

They avoid humans & there have been no known attacks at the park
Don’t make it a first.