Hearings were scheduled in the state capitol, Helena. I ARRIVED IN MONTANA in mid-August, months after anti-wolf legislation had passed, but before the state’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) Commissioners had authorized implementation rules. These two kinds of death-human and wolf - are disparate but connected by far-Right wing hatred of the federal government and a Trumpist political culture that embraces fundamentalist Protestantism while rejecting science in deciding public policies. Montana’s goal is to kill and kill until only some 200 wolves are left. It’s also legal to hunt the animals at night and to attract them with bait. Hunters are now allowed to use unlimited numbers of steel-clawed leg traps that hold wolves captive and cheap neck-snares that strangle them, even on public lands. Meanwhile, in the mountain forests and plains, Montana’s estimated 800 to 1,270 gray wolves face an onslaught from hunters and trappers empowered by lethal new laws.
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