Thank you for publishing David McGrath’s recent piece on the Wisconsin wolf hunt. I am a resident of Wisconsin. My late husband and I loved to hunt for deer, waterfowl and upland birds. We were of the opinion that hunting can be a very good thing for conservation, the land and the species who are harvested.
Apex predators, though, ought never be hunted. And wolves absolutely ought not be hunted, as their survival depends upon the survival of their pack mates. No matter what lens I look at wolf hunting through, in the United States in 2021 — economic, ethical, ecological or the interest of natural resource management — I see no benefit to hunting wolves other than, as McGrath so well described, the thrill of the kill.
Thank you for doing your part to shed awareness on what happened in Wisconsin. It is my hope that President Joe Biden will quickly issue federal protection for the gray wolf. I worry that a precedent has been set in which their status will become dependent not on environmental impact studies, but on which political party occupies the White House.
Elizabeth Boyd, River Falls, Wisconsin
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End payday loans
Payday loaners take advantage of the poor and others who cannot get loans at normal rates from other sources. I realize that borrowers sometimes have nobody but themselves to blame for taking out loans from predatory lenders. But more often than not, situations arise and these people need the money and are forced to borrow from these scrooges.
Having said that, the current bill which would cap the rate these “payday lenders” charge at 36% is still way too high.
Jerry Navarra, Morrison
