Gentlemen. Cock Your Rifles: Wolf Hunting May Start Again.

Montana state senator Dave Lewis, (Republican, Helena) has cosponsored a bill to bring back wolf hunting in Montana, and it has already passed in the Senate. Well this should be interesting. Lewis outlines his argument in a letter published today;

Why establish a wolf hunting season in Montana? Just a few years ago the return of the wolf was hailed as a great victory for wildlife management. What happened is that the numbers have grown so rapidly that the impact on elk numbers is starting to be noticeable.

We will stand for almost any injustice or diabolical plot perpetrated on the citizens of the state but cut in to elk numbers and the game is over. I have argued for years that the most powerful constituency in the state are elk and their friends. People who do not hunt elk love the fact that we can see them often and enjoy the fact that Montana is one of the few places where elk are part of the landscape.

Read the whole thing, before the fur flies.