Today my family and I are driving up to Montana to go to Yellowstone National Park. I don't have school today and Monday is a holiday. We will go up to the Lamar Vally to look for wolves and other wildlife. Winter is a great time to see wolves because all their pray animals are down in the Lamar Vally because there is deep snow in the mountains. The wolves follow their prey and it is easy to catch it because it is hard for animals like deer and elk to run in the snow.

I will try to take pictures and post them.

What is a Wolf? A large predatory canid (genus Canis) that lives and hunts in packs and resembles  dogs. (Hint; I got that off of Dictionary.com) Where did people get the stereotype of the big bad people and pet eating wolf? I dont know. 


Would you think the big bad wolf to look like this?








Or this?                   

But they really look like this. They are wise creatures. Yes they can be vicious but only when they have to be, and you know so can we.

So the purpose of this blog is to increase the understanding of and love for them. Last week, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a proposal to pay Wildlife Services $50,000 to launch a new round of wolf killing — which could include aerial gunning — under the excuse of artificially inflating elk herds to make hunting them easier. This plan is misguided and wrong! This can not be allowed to go on. When wolves were put on the endangered species the government wanted to get their population back up to at least 2000. This goal was accomplished because it was illegal to hunt wolves. When wolves were taken of the endangered spices list in 2011 it was made legal to hunt them. A few months ago the 1000 wolf was killed. IN ONE YEAR. The chart bellow shows the current wolf population in Western states.

Wolf Population Estimate by State (as of 2011)
Idaho			746
Wyoming			328
Montana			653
Oregon			29
Washington			18
Utah			0
Total (109 breeding pairs)			1774