Hunting Paradox

Suzanne Asha Stone staunchly believes that wolves should be allowed to coexist with all other wildlife. This is in stark contrast to so many folks in the hunting community that believes that wolves have decimated the ungulate population. The irony is, Suzanne and her family are avid hunters. ""The fact that you are with a wolf defending organization does not mean that you are opposed to hunting and fishing. You actually go out and hunt for elk? I am more into bow hunting myself, my husband is probably the bigger hunter and certainly my brother-in-law is a major elk hunter. My two sisters are some of the biggest fishing folk that I know. My younger sister has won all kinds of trophies in fishing and I don't look at any of the animals out there as being my property. Hunting and fishing is a real gift and it has to be done with an ethical sense of fair chase and has to be something that we respect. Certainly going to the grocery store and just buying your meet is actually much more disconnected than hunting and fishing and if done right, those can be ways that humans can coexist with the wildlife around them. You cannot put a lot of pressure on species like with wolves in Idaho, we have somewhere around 600 of them left in the state and there is a lot of pressure about moving that number down. For some reason people think that is a lot of wolves but if you compare that to the number of mountain lions, we have 3000 mountain lions in the state, 20,000 black bears, over 100,000 elk and, what, a quarter of 1 million deer?