Wolf hunters can’t hide their rabid hatred for wolves, science & conservation
- Staci-lee Sherwood
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By Staci-lee Sherwood
Animal advocates often wonder what really makes a hunter tick? Where does the idea that killing for sport or entertainment come from and why do some gravitate toward that when the majority shun hunting? We used to have values that promoted higher learning and a culture that sought to elevate everyone through education. We used to teach that abuse of any kind was wrong. Defunding of public schools coupled with a promotion of hunting and a deafening silence by media on violence towards animals has led to a rise in violence against all living beings. While we can’t teach empathy we can, we used to, teach science. This lack of schooling has a devastating ripple effect on conservation.
Wolves have been blamed and hated without cause for centuries but it wasn’t always like that. We used to love and admire them, so much so we bred them until we domesticated enough we now call dogs aka mans’ best friend. How did we get to this twisted end from what started as a beautiful co-existence? Why are some people so over the top with hatred for a species that has rarely ever attacked them in thousands of years of sharing the planet? Lack of education is part of it, poor leadership from government another. There’s evidence that people who enjoy killing animals are born without the ability to feel empathy of others. These people are considered useful tools by the powerful in government backed by even more powerful people whose agenda is about exploiting whatever they can by any means. The fight to save our wolves encapsulates that.
The bigger picture is the land grab of public lands supposedly protected. Ranchers, hunters and mining companies have always pushed for more land they can exploit especially at taxpayer expense. Since February 2025 it has been a mad dash to openly do what they’ve been quietly trying for years. This is blatant theft of American citizen’s land held in trust by the government, they don’t actually own it the taxpayers do. Republicans in Congress at the demand of the President hope to sell everything they can to be forever destroyed by oil, coal, gas, mineral mining, ranching and hunting.
This plunder will forever contaminate water and land and the domino effect will be less water to drink (in states already suffering droughts) and less water to grow food. The land grabbers dovetail their agenda with the wolf haters into a toxic brew. Delisting wolves, expanding hunter’s rights, passing the Pet and Livestock bill, putting the worst anti-wildlife anti-public lands people in charge of the very agencies we pay them to protect, bills that openly call to sell off national refuges and parks…..it all goes together but you’ll never hear that on any news channel.
Wolves are the ‘canary in the coal mine’……if the federal government and western states can delist wolves they’ll keep going until there are no species left on the Endangered Species Act to protect. There won’t be anything to stop the destruction of public lands which is their ultimate goal. ALL the glaring signs are there.
Poor education VS science and conservation
Who wouldn’t want a country filled with educated and curious citizens? The USA government, that’s who. No one in power wants to be questioned, least of all by those who already know the facts, watch the news you’ll see how true this is. There is a direct correlation to people lacking education and the ease with which they are brainwashed by propaganda.
Hunters say in public it’s about management. Nature has managed species for billions of years without needing us to. ‘Management’ is used to justify killing with words like ‘harvest’ though it’s not harvesting wheat. Hunters drape their excuses in the flag with lame cries of tradition and rights. We are a nation seemingly proud of ignorant people in charge and, no surprise, violence is on the rise as is animal abuse and hunting. It all goes together.
Taken in the 1990’s at a Mission: Wolf workshop
USFWS, Hunter Nation and Safari Club
In August 2025 Brian Nesvik was picked to head US Fish Wildlife Service, an agency that protected wolves in the 1990s when Hank Fisher was there, but now acts like a shell company for hunters, oil companies and animal abusers. Nesvik ran Wyoming’s Fish & Game agency for years and their treatment of wildlife is terrible. I spent many summers out there and know this personally. When it comes to killing wolves, or any animal these ranchers and hunters want removed it really is ‘shoot, shovel, shut up’ ole boys network. In recent years that has exploded in the federal government. Federal and state law does NOT apply when it comes to animals, even endangered ones.
Pet and Livestock Protection Act sponsored by wolf hater Lauren Boebert republican from Colorado and very much against their wolf re-introduction program. Its focus is delisting wolves and allows for indiscriminate killing of wolves and wolf packs. USFWS supports it. Passed in the House has not come for a vote in the Senate.
Hunter Nation lost their minds over these 4 republicans who did NOT vote for delisting
Keith Mark, founder of Hunter Nation a powerful wealthy pro hunting lobby group working with the Safari Club to delist wolves and exploit public lands
Luke Hilgemann, CEO of Hunter Nation, smiles while showing his children how to be callous and violent. He’s former CEO of conservative group Americans for Prosperity. In 2023 he helped Florida Gov Desantis and Florida Fish Wildlife Commission pass Amendment 2 which guaranteed hunting
Ted Nugent is their national spokesman. Nugent had mild success 50 years ago with his ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ and ‘Wango Tango’ songs. Now he’s all about killing animals
Hunter Nation Board member Craig Morgan, Chief Warrant Officer US Army
Hunter Nation Board member and legal counsel Kris Kobach, Attorney General for the State of Kansas
Donald Trump Jr, with brother Eric and the leopard they killed in Zimbabwe. Trump Jr. is a big trophy hunter, perhaps he’s desperate for attention and thinks killing animals makes him a man. They own a killing preserve in Wingdale, New York, neighbors say it sounds like a war zone there. Conflict of interest but no one says a peep
Ask yourself this……if a man (or woman) is out all day killing an animal(s) that can’t fight back, how patient and loving do you really think they’ll be at home? If a man makes a living trapping and torturing animals how good a partner or father is he really going to be? You already know.
They deserve to live in peace just as you would want that for yourself
This is Bryan Moody, electrician from Ketchikan, Alaska. Self described wolf trapper who prides himself on how many wolves he kills. He absolutely is the classic animal abuser, inflicting pain without any thought or regret.
“What a special 29 days of trapping it has been! 20 wolves down and the season is just starting! It’s been a ton of work, running gear dark to dark and skinning fur with the free time! Very thankful for Jason sticking it out through the grind and long hours it takes to help manage these predators. Thanks to the friends that were able to come along and check gear and help pack wolves, you guys rock. Onto the next unit and the next adventure!” Via Bryan Moody on Facebook
Moody proudly posts a photo of 3 year old Ridge after he killed a wolf
The Safari Club International (SCI) has long been known for its trophy hunts around the world including endangered species like rhinos and forest elephants. If you grease the palms enough you can kill whatever you want. This is not a secret just never covered by the ‘news’. They too spend millions getting their animal abusing friends elected and have long fought against ESA listing of new species and delisting of most already endangered including wolves. Their members brag about what they kill, often using canned hunts where the captive animals are drugged and/or chained for their easy trophy. They use the same lame ‘management’ excuse but it’s the thrill to kill this group promotes.
They also have their own fake nonprofit called Safari Club International Foundation where they lie about protecting species and greenwash for the uneducated and easily swayed. They only protect animals they can later kill. They joined Hunter Nation is pushing for the wolf killing bill Pet and Livestock Protection Act and have supported more hunting on public lands, banning any quotas and a long list of anti wildlife bills at the state and federal level. In 2018 they were part of a fake conservation board set up by President Trump. Board members included Morgan Stanley advisor and then Safari Club president Paul Babaz, and Peter Horn co-owner of the 171 acre hunting preserve in Wingdale,, New York along with Don Jr and Eric Trump.
Click here to read about the preserve
Click here to read more about SCI true agenda
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Does exposing a young child to violence affect their brain? Years of research and studies prove it does. Would you want your daughter or granddaughter to date or marry men who grew up like this? Would you want a man who was like this as a child? You know they’re already violent without conscious and statistics show will be abusers.
The case of Cody Roberts and his torture of a wolf
Cody Roberts, a 42 year old male and lifelong hunter lives in Daniel, Wyoming a tiny rural town in the middle of nowhere. On February 29, 2024 Roberts ran over a young Timber wolf with his snowmobile, captured, muzzled and chained the wolf dragging him to the local Green River Bar for photos where the dying wolf was held for hours until Roberts shot and killed him. Wolf killing in Wyoming and Montana is rampant with no oversight or accountability. Their conservation policies are a con fostered and promoted by the good ole boys hunter network of locals and government employees.
On August 21, 2025 Roberts was indicted by a state grand jury on felony animal cruelty charges. His attorney, Robert Piper of Cheyenne-based Coal Creek Law, filed a motion on December 15, 2025 asking Sweetwater County District Court Judge Richard Lavery to dismiss the case. On January 28, 2026 Roberts appeared in court hoping to have his case dismissed. His attorney tried to have Ken Mills, wolf biologist with Wyoming Game and Fish Department, testimony excluded. The judge has reserved judgment. A written decision determines whether the trial moves forward on March 9, 2026. Roberts has until February 11 to enter a plea deal. If convicted, he faces up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. If you know anything about Wyoming it’s doubtful the dead wolf will see justice. Wolf killing is a pastime out there.
Cody Roberts bragging about his torture of a wolf
Science can show how hunting and violence affect the brain
It’s well known that children who abuse animals have the deep psychological problems that psychopaths and narcissists have. They grow up to be violent adults often ending up in prison. Psychopaths feels no empathy toward suffering they inflict, doesn’t matter if it’s directed at humans or animals. They can never be cured of this and should be locked away. Machiavellians are manipulators who lie to fit their own self inflated image. Narcissists have inflated egos and manipulate those around them with lies and gas lighting, much the way hunters justify what they do with words like ‘management’ and ‘harvest’. These three personality traits are called the dark triad.
In 2013 a study was published called ‘The Dark Triad and animal cruelty: Dark personalities, dark attitudes, and dark behaviors’ by Kavanagh, Signal and Taylor. They found people with these traits don’t experience the same level of emotions about suffering of others whether human or animal as the rest of us do. If you don’t think killing an animal that is not charging you with intent to kill or having animals starve to death in leg hold traps doesn’t qualify as psychopathic behavior perhaps you share some of these traits. Hunting IS animal abuse and abuse in any form comes from people who are psychotic. Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it moral, it just means as a species and society we are weak to confront what we know deep down is gravely wrong.
Click here to read the study
If serial killers of humans are bad people to be removed from society, why not see serial killers of animals the same way? The motivation is the same regardless of what a hunter will tell you, deep down the thrill to kill and inflict pain is what drives them. The disconnect we humans have is why we let the minority (less than 10% of Americans identify as hunters) rule every state and federal agency in charge of animals and land to the point of destruction.
Since 2015 the group IG Wild beim Wild (Interest Group for Wildlife with Wildlife) in Switzerland has been documenting how hunting affects children and hobby hunters. They found that “When children learn that killing is a normal part of leisure and "experiencing nature", their inner compass shifts. Animal suffering appears as a legitimate means of entertainment or as a field in which adults demonstrate their power. Empathy for wild animals is being pushed aside in favor of hunting romanticism and trophy aesthetics. Weapons are presented not as a last resort in self-defense, but as toys and status symbols.”
Click here to read more
https://wildbeimwild.com/jagd-im-kopf-was-gewalt-mit-dem-gehirn-von-hobby-jaegern-und-kindern-macht/
Final thought about hunting and hunting wolves. I know it’s wrong and I know the vast majority know it’s wrong. So why are we letting it happened when we have the majority and should exercise it?
How you help save our wolves from extinction
Support good legislation at the state and federal level to put wolves back on the Endangered Species List, where they belong
Do not support anyone associated with Hunter Nation, Safari Club or any hunting group. It’s easy to look up founders and board members and never ever hire them or buy their products.
Research everyone running for office, if they call themselves ‘outdoorsman’ that’s code for hunter. Non hunters never use that term, they call themselves hikers and nature lovers.
Follow the money of government agencies, the payoffs are why so few animal welfare laws pass/enforced
Support legitimate pro-wolf pro-wildlife preservation. There are many fake groups who do nothing or have sold out like Defenders of Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation all support hunting. Instead support groups like NY Wolf Conservation Center , Wolf International and Mission: Wolf
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Follow the Roberts trial here on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WyomingWildlifeAdvocates
To learn more about our wolves click here https://www.realitycheckswithstacilee.com/post/the-timberline-wolf-pack-centuries-of-hatred-and-persecution-led-to-wolf-pups-unjust-death
To learn how many tribes feel, with some surprises, click here https://www.realitycheckswithstacilee.com/post/it-s-a-watershed-moment-for-brother-wolf-and-native-americans
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