BOISE, Idaho— As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that the removal of wolves from Endangered Species Act protection nationwide is "very imminent," new data from Idaho show the ugly face of state wolf-management there.

Please be aware. Educate your children about wildlife. This backward mindset of killing out of ignorance, killing for sport, killing for pleasure, killing for recreation must be eradicated. 

"Wolves are a native species and part of our iconic western wildlife heritage," said Derek Goldman, Northern Rockies representative of the Endangered Species Coalition. "It's deeply disappointing that Idaho Department of Fish and Game is abandoning science and ethics in its zeal to eradicate wolves, when many nonlethal, less-costly approaches to conflict prevention already exist."