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The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission release statement regarding Sublette County incident
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, charged with oversight of the Game & Fish Department, has issued this statement regarding the recent incident in Sublette County and the conviction of the Defendant for Illegal Possession of a Warm-blooded Wildlife.
Statement
– By way of this statement, the Commission denounces the actions that were revealed following the Department’s investigation of the incident. The actions of the defendant do not represent the value Wyoming people and our Commission have for our incredible and priceless wildlife resources.
For over one hundred years, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has successfully managed Wyoming’s wildlife. Wyoming has proven itself to be the gold standard in wildlife management. This incident perpetrated by one individual does not represent a failure in wildlife policy or management.
We wish to be clear: We support the investigation conducted by the Department. We recognize and appreciate the work of the Department and the work of the Wardens involved. We’re satisfied that every tool we have available was used, and used to the best of our ability. The Department has acted with transparency and in compliance with Wyoming law.
The Governor had a joint call with a few state officials and stakeholders to discuss what occurred in Sublette County. We stand ready to provide any support or coordination deemed necessary on this issue. –
The Department has also released the public records requested by the public related to a recent law enforcement case involving an individual who was cited for illegally possessing a live wolf.
Lisa M Shinn
April 17, 2024 at 8:59 pm
Any human who thinks it is OK to torture another species deserves the same torture done to them!! Torture is just evil! No excuse he or his family come up with makes what he did (& probably has done before) OK! I feel no compassion for him or his family & the backlash they are recieving….it is nothing compared to the pain & suffering he caused a totally innocent animal! I sincerely hope they suffer for the rest of their days……
Julianne Bergstrom
April 22, 2024 at 3:11 pm
The fact that the state of Wyoming still has laws that make it legal to torture wildlife tells me everything I need to know about Wyoming. I have been there, I will drive around Wyoming rather than through it in the future.
Amy Benson
April 18, 2024 at 8:24 am
The laws in Wyoming are very outdated and have to change. You’ve managed the wildlife well for over 100 years? Apparently not. If the laws were set right in the first place this incident wouldn’t have taken place. This individual did this for sport and terrorized and rode down on a snowmobile hurting and torturing how many wolves and other animals for how long now? His instagram showed many many times of this horrific act. I shudder to think of the torment they suffered. The whole world is watching you Wyoming. Time to protect the wildlife from animal cruelty and torture on those unprotected lands also! Also get rid of the inhumane traps and gas chamber euthanisa! We’re in 2024 now. We live in a civilized country here in the USA and we need these changes to take place asap!
Neal and Debbie DeGarmo
April 18, 2024 at 7:16 pm
No Wyoming you have not managed wildlife well over the past 100 years. Anytime any government agency employee says they’ve managed wildlife lets look at that honestly. The BLM. the most corrupt, inhumane organization in the US government. Taxpayer money. Donations to stop the inhumane roundups, killing, slaughter of our wild horses, donkeys. Re introduction of wolves then the subsequent killing and Slaughter of them. Bears. Cougars. You name it. You kill it. You make money from cattle ranchers, you don’t know anything about what’s right. All about the money. I worked in mental health for 20 years and I saw what humans are capable of in the torture and killing of animals and other humans. Your wolf murderer is one sick, twisted foul excuse, he’s a father, a husband. One can only imagine. Your state tolerates, encourages the killing of wolves. This isn’t a Conservative Liberal issue. I’m no Liberal. This is an issue of being human, not a murdering psychopath. He deserves the same suffering he forced on this animal. A lone wolf trying to survive. This man killed for fun. He enjoyed it. Celebrated it. The world needs less of him and more humans who will fight to protect life. That wolf had a right to live. Man thinks they have the authority to kill whatever they choose. The Apex predators kill to survive. Remember that. This country is in a downward spiral and it’s people like your Wolf killer and government agencies that are destroying all that should be good. Rise above and do what’s right.
Joellyn Carlson
April 21, 2024 at 11:04 am
Very well said.
Michael J Cornish
April 18, 2024 at 9:32 am
It’s time for yet another “comission” to stop talking and clear a pathway for this criminal to be TRULY punished with a NOT just the (yawn) slap on the wrist. Additionally, put in place strong legislation that recognize predators as a VITAL part of the ecosystem. If ranchers and so called sportsmen don’t like it too bad. Let the ranchers remove their cattle from PUBLIC land and a source of free feed and let “sportsmen” know that appreciation for wildlife is NOT through a gunfight or at the end of a hook.
Roy Campbell
April 18, 2024 at 12:22 pm
The pure blatant lack of compassion for a living animal by only charging this Cretan for illegally possessing a live wolf and not charging him with an additional count of animal cruelty shows who your really protecting.
Matthew Stellato
April 18, 2024 at 1:17 pm
This was a cruel and despicable act carried out by this evil perpetrator for his own sick kicks and entertainment for an innocent defenseless female pup in her own natural habitat this demonic jerk must be punished for this Crime accordingly to the full extent
Maria Valdez-Gonzales
April 18, 2024 at 2:40 pm
CALL IT WHAT IT IS!!!
ANIMAL TORTURE AND ABUSE!!!
Slap on this guys hand is not enough for what he did to that wolf.
He claims to be a a big time hunter. Hunters do not torture. The take a clear clean shot(kill shot) so the animal will not suffer.
Marcie Terwilliger
April 18, 2024 at 11:11 pm
This abject disregard for wolves and other’furbearers’is endemic in hunt/trap communities across the country. Killing sentient creatures ‘for sport’ is obscene. The condoning of such activities as ‘recreation’ by governing bodies, fosters cruelty. The future of our Planet demands COEXISTENCE!
Daniel Diefenderfer
April 20, 2024 at 12:07 pm
take his hunting rights away from Him for 5 or ten yrs and see if he thinks that’s right. He
will think twice before running over a wolf with his snow machine, and he’s not the only one who brags about running over coyotes with a snow machine. Some people are heartless. and no compassion for wild life which has a write to live, The bear over at ten sleep WY had a right to live also, why not take him back to the park.