CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight.
The social media accounts of Wyoming’s tourism agency are being flooded with comments urging people to steer clear of the Cowboy State amid accusations that a man struck a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and showed off the injured animal at a Sublette County bar before killing it.
While critics contend that Wyoming has enabled such animal cruelty, a leader of the state’s stock growers association said it’s an isolated incident and unrelated to the state’s wolf management laws. The laws that have been in place for more than a decade are designed to prevent the predators from proliferating out of the mountainous Yellowstone region and into other areas where ranchers run cattle and sheep.
Moment passenger has huge foul
Former UK leader Liz Truss backs Trump and blames others for her ouster after 49 days
China firmly against US, Japan's false narrative on China's nuclear policy
More homes flooded in Russian region bordering Kazakhstan, other areas
Jerry Seinfeld's commitment to the bit
UN chief calls for restraint after Iran's retaliatory attacks on Israel
US Olympic committee strikes sponsorship deal to help athletes get degrees after they retire
The US ambassador to Japan says boosting arms industry ties is key to a stronger security alliance
Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures stayed elevated last month
Former UK leader Liz Truss backs Trump and blames others for her ouster after 49 days
Pope to bring his call for ethical artificial intelligence to G7 summit in June in southern Italy
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 32,414