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To: Grainne who wrote (103964)	5/13/2005 4:24:58 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

A local coyote hunter shot a wolf. Everybody told him it was just a big coyote so he sent a sample to the Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources for testing. Yep, it was a wolf that had come down from Wisconsin and BTW the fine for shooting a wolf in Illinois is $250k. Since the official position of the IDNR is there are no wolves in Illinois they told him to call it a coyote and they wouldn't fine him.

To: Grainne who wrote (103964)	5/13/2005 5:21:32 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not sure why so many people think that people who keep livestock have so many more rights than the people who want nature to be nature. Assume I own a 2,000 acre ranch in Montana. Assume a wolf reintroduced from Canada into a National Forest Wilderness area adjacent to my ranch strays over my property line and begins killing my cattle. What should I do? There are hundreds of thousands of square miles of Wilderness areas in the United States. No one (at least not me) is quarreling with the purpose of letting "nature be nature." However, don't be surprised if wolves (or other reintroduced predators) stray off the reservation and get themselves killed for munching on some rancher's hamburger.