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It’s not easy being a wolf in northern Minnesota.

Every year dozens of the animals die of starvation, disease, parasites, vehicle traffic and poaching.

But the No. 1 killer of Minnesota wolves may come as a surprise: agents of the federal government, acting with the full force of the law.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Here's an idea: instead of using shitton of cash to murder wolves, use a shitton of cash to pay for fencing that keeps wolves out. Like, if the government is really using millions of dollars to kill wolves, surely they could use that money to build fences instead, right? I'd be okay with that. They're gonna be spending the money anyway, and farmers/ranchers don't tend to have a whole lot of money unless they're corporate, so expecting them to use their own money probably isn't a great solution. Give them fencing instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m pretty sure that the scale of these ranches would make for an astronomically expensive fence. And it would have to be well maintained, because any little opening will be found and exploited by the animals.

Surely there’s some other solution…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve known dogs that treat fences like a minor inconvenience and they’re well fed!

I don’t know that the mass killing is the perfect solution but I don’t have any ideas and I know fences aren’t it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Feed any wealthy 🤑 rich CEO , banksters ETC that's done corruption on mass scale... Feed them to the wolves

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