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Daughter of the Earth

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Little wolf you were alive

Near your first year

You were more than we can imagine

More than mere words

A man void of empathy

Made you a thing in his mind

An object to conquer

Some loot to plunder

You were a daughter of the earth

Reduced to a mote in his eyes

He ran you down with a machine

Until you lay exhausted in the snow

Injured and helpless

He taped up your muzzle

The anguish of your wounds

And the terror you felt

He was blind to you

Daughter of the earth

And lest you remind him

Tape made you mute

He paraded you as a laughing stock

Around a noisy bar

To quiver beneath revilement and hate

With precedence of two thousand years

Still haunting you this age

Daughter of the earth

They thought you a vermin

An image in their minds

As your heart thumped in dread

They saw a caricature of your kind

No one tried to stop him

What does this say about the measure of man?

Has all the courage left their hearts?

Is society full of cowards and brigands?

No one protested

Nor stepped between the man

A fool or hero brave enough to take a stand

To save a daughter of the earth

Then Cody Roberts took you behind the bar and shot you

From that blast which rent the air

A history of civilization

In all its sound and fury

Snuffing out a little wolf

Burning out an entire earth

Signifying nothing

Does anyone else feel this way?

Wolves are one of my absolute favorite animals. They're fabulous, their social behavior is fascinating, they bond so deeply with their family and I love that. I used to watch videos and documentaries and I'd feel so much awe and wonder just watching them.

That's all been ruined. I don't feel that anymore, at all. Instead I feel anger and sadness. I've read too many stories of famous, incredible wolves being shot, legally or illegally - White Lady, 06, Spitfire, Takaya, Romeo, Toklat/East Fork's 2005 breeding pair. I've heard researchers lament having wolves and entire packs they study obliterated, over and over, by trapping and hunting. And then you have the recent events that everyone in the world is outraged about.

I dealt with a coworker over the summer who bragged about poaching deer and wanted everyone to know how they couldn't wait to go hunt wolves - probably illegally.

And I feel loss, too. Loss that so many research opportunities are being lost, that the social structures of wolves in so many places are being constantly torn apart by human-caused deaths. White Lady was possibly days away from giving birth when she was shot. Toklat's breeding pair's deaths caused a complete breakdown in their pack and left yearlings and pups living entirely off of snowshoe hares.

I can't get away from it, either. I follow wolf photographers and videographers on instagram and the comments are full of hatred toward wolves. I follow pages on Facebook and photographers on facebook who are fighting for wolf conservation and everything they post about is disheartening. I love that they're fighting for wolves, but there is nowhere I can turn that I'm not reminded of wolf hunting/poaching/hatred.

I do not feel happy when I think of wolves anymore. They are ruined. Same thing happened when I got really into keeping up with wild horse herds - I started to care about them so I started to keep up with the issues and the efforts to help them, and just like wolves there was nothing but failure after failure to make a change, and...the magic was ruined.

My favorite animals are now a source of stress instead of joy. An actually unhealthy amount of stress.

And on the other side, I was really considering switching to a degree in animal behavior and studying wolves. It was my dream. I don't think I can pursue a career that causes so much emotional distress - I can see it shaving years off my life.

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Any contact information or whatever would be helpful. Trump did not make a good call removing their protections, in my humble opinion. I have time this summer when I'm off and I'd like to do something for the greater good with it...

Thanks in advance :)

Any posts or comments about the Wyoming incident must go in this thread. Any posts outside of this thread will be removed.

Any calls to violence or brigading against the individual, establishment or anyone/anything else will be met with an immediate 1 week ban.

I do not want to suppress posts about the Wyoming wolf incident. However these posts are frequently becoming a hotbed of disrespect and fighting.

Please keep it clean and respectful. Otherwise the ban hammer will come out and be used frequently.

EDIT: I have just had to remove dozens of posts calling for violence against the individual and establishment in question. As such, I have been forced to lock comments on all related threads.

I will start a mega thread shortly. Any and all discussion of the incident will need to be restricted to that thread. Any new posts will be removed.

So, me and my fiancee are planning on moving to North Carolina, and I want to do what I can to get involved with Red Wolf conservation. However, I'm feeling disheartened upon hearing of the near fanatical hatred ranchers, hunters and farmers have for wolves, and I'm genuinely worried that before long, the Red Wolf (and even the Gray Wolf) may end up extinct. Is the internet just blowing the prevalence of these wolf-hating ranchers/hunters/farmers out of proportion, or does pretty much every one of them view wolves as pests?

It appears r/Wyoming is shutting down Cody Roberts post commenting so I'm throwing this out here. This post has three parts. One: what happened. Two: Ways to take action. Three: Reference links.

What happened?

On February 29th, Cody Roberts, reportedly intoxicated, perpetrated a heinous act of animal cruelty in Wyoming. Witnesses recount him chasing down a young wolf with a snowmobile until it collapsed in exhaustion and then ran it over. He then callously duct-taped its mouth and fit it with a shock collar. Shockingly, Roberts proceeded to bring the injured and tortured animal to the Green River bar in Daniel, WY (https://www.yelp.com/biz/green-river-bar-daniel), where he subjected it to further torture amidst the patrons. Every time the wolf tried to move it appears (from what I could stomach watching on the video before turning it off) he just shocked the bejesus out of it)

Afterwards he then took the young wolf out back, tortured it some more for fun, then finally killed it and turning over it's pelt to Wyoming Fish and Wildlife.

Everything, according to Wyoming Fish and Wildlife, was legal, except for keeping a live wolf in your possession. For that violation, Cody Roberts was fined $250 and did not even have to show up in court. However, one brave patron reported the incident to Cowboy State news outlet. It was picked up by other news outlets. Wyoming Fish and Wildlife initially refused to release any information but Cody Roberts had already proudly posted a picture of himself with the tortured wolf. Holly Roberts, Cody Robert's wife, defended his actions, and his aunt, Jeanne Ivie Robert, a bartender at the Green River Bar, reenacted the cruel scene. All immediate Roberts Family social media accounts appear to be de-activated. His friends have come to his defense saying he was drunk and should be forgiven. Originally I could find those comments on FB but I don't seem to be able to now.

Call To Action (Please do not make threats to anyone and to stay on the legal side of right.)

Petition to charge him as a felon: https://www.change.org/p/demand-felony-charges-against-cody-roberts-for-animal-cruelty

Petition to end "Wolf/Coyote Whacking" (running animals to death with a snowmobile or running them over with a snowmobile) - some consider it a sport in Wyoming. https://www.change.org/p/end-brutal-coyote-whacking-in-wyoming

Petition for the US Gov to reenact wolves protection since other states have similar laws to Wyoming (you can Google that): https://www.change.org/p/protect-america-s-wolves

Email the of Sublette County Sheriff Lehr who is investigating: kclehr@sublettecountywy.gov

Contact Page for Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon: https://governor.wyo.gov/contact/governor

Reference:

Holly Roberts, Cody Roberts wife, is running for re-election to the Daniel town planning & zoning board https://www.sublettecountywy.gov/338/Planning-Zoning-Board

Cody and Holly Roberts own Roberts Trucking, LLC: https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&query_string=1627930

Cowboy State Daily Description of Incident: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/06/smiling-man-poses-with-wyoming-wolf-muzzle-taped-shortly-before-it-was-killed/

Cowboy State Daily Video of Incident: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/10/disturbing-video-released-by-game-and-fish-shows-tormented-wyoming-wolf/ (If you are empathetic please strongly reconsider watching)

Cowboy State Daily Sheriff Lehr on Possible Additional Charges: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/10/investigation-could-lead-to-more-charges-for-accused-wyoming-wolf-tormentor/

Cowboy State Daily Stuff Politicians Said but Now They are Quiet: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/08/gov-gordon-joins-outrage-over-torment-of-wyoming-wolf/

There are a lot of folks named Cody Roberts in Wyoming. Don't hold it against all of them.

Or, if you’re in Riverton, go in person.

Link here: https://myemail-api.constantcontact.com/If-You-Want-Justice-for-the-Wolf-that-Was-Tortured-in-Wyoming--Keep-Reading.html?soid=1129547270452&aid=c2i4qlzrYDU