This is in response to the Nov. 12 story, "Minnesota wolf hunters register 49 since opener."
Generations of my family have been subsistence hunters. We long have considered hunting for "sport" to be an affront to common sense and to respect for life -- especially to life that gives us life.
Also, every state chose a bit of nature to represent it and laws making harming that nature illegal. The wolf is an inherently sacred and spiritual part of many indigenous peoples' way of life. And so disrespect continues from hundreds of years ago into the present. What an outcry there would be if an indigenous person publicly destroyed a cross, rosary or other symbols of faiths or doctrines that symbolize significance to others though these do not breath, mother, father or die.
Finally, regarding spirituality and nature: How does anyone realistically determine a minimum or maximum number of wolves to be sufficient or insufficient for any area? Nature decides what needs to be in an area. The only way to discourage the underpopulation or overpopulation of an animal or plant considered noxious is to improve that area to such a degree that balance is naturally restored.
The arrogance of human intervention seldom scores a win for anyone long-term. What happens in nature happens to all of us.
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Catherine Colvin
Duluth
