Yellowstone wolf-killer is baiting animals with dead sheep
BOZEMAN — A big game outfitter who shot and killed a collared wolf from Yellowstone National Park is intentionally luring the animals by leaving dead sheep carcasses in a pile, leaders of a wolf advocacy group said.
William Hoppe shot and killed a 2-year old, female wolf Sunday near where 13 sheep were killed in April. He notified Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden Chris Kerin that he killed the wolf using one of his two shoot-on-sight permits the agency issued after the sheep were killed, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported Wednesday. The permits are valid for 45 days and only allow wolves to be shot on the property where the sheep were killed.
In mid-April, Hoppe, an outspoken opponent of wolves, bought about 30 sheep and started raising them on his property along the Yellowstone River near Gardiner.Hoppe "deliberately put the sheep on his property ... knowing that the wolves would kill them," Cooke charged.
Smith said information from the wolf's radio collar indicated that she was not involved in killing Hoppe's sheep.
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The things I'd like to see done to him cannot be spoken here.
Goddamn him.
