The United States federal government passed a law in 1915.
This law provided for the extermination of wolves on federal land.
The funding for this was $125,000.00 and the government hired
it's first official hunters on July 1, 1915.
These hunters were not bounty hunters in the usual sense.
These hunters were federal employees who felt a sense of serious
duty.
There was a sense of dedication to the bureaucratic role they had
agreed to play.
The federal hunter used poisons to kill off the last of the "easy"
ones.
Those were the wolves who were not as man-shy.
The remaining wolves were done in by steel traps and other means
of entrapment.
The federal hunter was also always looking for dens.
Some hunters claimed it made them sick yet the shame and the guilt
didn't stop them from carrying out their "duty".
The biggest public interest in this Wolf War was because of the federal
hunters'
attempts to take down the last remaining Outlaw
Wolves.
While much was said about these big, bad wolves...
the truth was that many of these Outlaws were the only ones
left in areas
where there was nothing left to eat but cattle.
These Outlaws proved to be very hard to catch.
Oddly enough, many of these Outlaw wolves were white
wolves.
Many of them were born and lived on Indian reservations.
Several of them had been maimed from earlier attempts to kill them.
Between July 1, 1915 and June 30, 1942...the government hunters
killed 24,132 wolves. Most of the wolves killed were from
Wyoming,
Colorado, Montana and the western side of the Dakotas. This
extermination even included those wolves in the US national parks.
What is truth?
Listen to your heart...
The time is near...very near.