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How snowmobile wolf killer Cody Roberts helped to restore wolf protection

August 8, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Montana federal judge rules Fish & Wildlife Service wrongly returned wolf management to states CHEYENNE, Wyoming;  MISSOULA, Montana––In the court of public opinion,  one wolf stands for all. An August 5,  2025 verdict rendered by U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy may return wolves in the western states to Endangered Species Act protection. But as […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Brian Sweeney, Cody Roberts, Donald Molloy, Jim Keen, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Sara Amundson, Wayne Pacelle

Managing wolf hatred, by Robert Schmidt

October 5, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

“Care for your neighbors.  Let natural processes go to work.  Have patience. That’s my 100-year plan.” Robert Schmidt is Emeritus Faculty of the College of Natural Resources,  Environment and Society Department,  at Utah State University in Logan,  Utah.  He now lives in Colorado. Standing underneath the red fir,  about 50 feet off the trail,  the […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Predators, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Caroline Shugart Smith, Cody Roberts, Jon Coleman, Taung child

Wolves & mountain lions are dog & cats too, voters warn western states

September 13, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

“Ballot box biology” is “ballot box morality,” ethologist Marc Bekoff tells Wyoming & Colorado          CHEYENNE,  DENVER––Continuing failures on the part of the Wyoming Game & Fish Department and Colorado Parks & Wildlife to respond to public outrage over cruelty to wolves,  pumas,  bobcats,  and other predators invited an initiative to ban puma and bobcat hunting […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Dog use, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Fur trapping, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Predators, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cody Roberts, Marc Bekoff, Mark Udall, Merritt Clifton, Tom Tancredo, Wayne Pacelle

Snowmobile wolf lynching puts Wyoming, Idaho, & Montana on trial

April 9, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

Cody Roberts ran down wolf with snowmobile,  tortured her in a bar,  killed her,  & bragged about it DANIEL,  Wyoming––Not since the Ku Klux Klan-like lynching of 22-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Wayne Shepard,  who on October 12,  1998 died in hospital six days after his crucifixion on barbed wire near Laramie,  has […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Religion & philosophy, U.S., USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Brian Sweeney, Cody Roberts, Erik Molvar, Holly Harms Roberts, Jeanne Ivie-Roberts, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Sara Amundson, Wayne Pacelle

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