Wolf in the Southwest

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By the late 40's there weren't very many left. Encroachment had taken a big toll. Roads, ranches, farms, towns, homesteads, mines, industry, just civilization in general. When the gov't decided to eradicate em, there weren't a lot of em left. My uncle always said that the wolf's refusal to fear man killed em off. He told me it was the homesteader with one milk cow and some chickens that did more damage to the wolf population than gov't trappers. Mr lobo never figured out that everyone had a shotgun until it was too late. He didn't have much experience with the Sonoran griz, but he said he figured the same was probably true with them also. The whole thing is a lie and all the folks that push it are liars that refuse to let the truth get in the way of their agenda. No other way to look at it. Lark.