wolves. a look at their history, enemies and positive resurgence in pop culture. mike wagner (2000)

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Wolves: A look at their history, enemies and positive resurgence in pop culture.

by Mike Wagner Founder and Director of Heart of the Wolf Organization

Warning, the following article although factual, has text and pictures that are not

for the faint of heart. Parental Discretion is advised.

Wolves are a creature like none other on the planet. A species that has been on the Earth

for as long as humans can remember them and one that is loved and hated by humans.

Although there are more Wolves now than there were 30 years ago, the trials and

tribulations they face are the same now as they were hundreds of years ago but indifferent forms.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT WOLVES

Wolves are canids, the ancestors of dogs. They are pack animals, where they can have a

pack of as few as 2 to as many as 14. They have a structure of society, which are called

packs, which are complex family systems that are integral to their survival.

The pack leaders are the Alpha pair. The pair is of course, one female and one male. Both

are equals. The Alpha pair usually are bonded for life. Those who are second in

command are the Beta pair.

Then you have of course the regular pack members. The wolf that is last in rank in the

pack are called Omega.

Packs are just like human families. Packs also hunt together, which is one of the most

important aspects, since it is their primary strategy for food acquisition. What is

fascinating is that about any wolf pup that isnt even a part of a pack and doesnt have

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Wolves once inhabited almost everywhere in the world. However starting with time

before the 1500s, that changed, and by the late 1970s, Wolves were primarily in

Canada, Alaska, Minnesota, and China.

Wolves eat a variety of types of food. They eat elk, bison, and yes even fruits.Watermelons are some of their favorite kind.

Wolves have had a history that has been one that has been horrible to them for more than

500 years.1

THE WAR AGAINST THE WOLF

'As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no

harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.' --Isaac Bashevis Singer

The War Against The Wolf was one of the most horrible wars in history. Millions of

Wolves were slaughtered. And they were slaughtered in some of the most horrible ways

imaginable.

Wolves were murdered for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons was because the early

modern humans spurned nature and isolated from it. They soon developed their own

cities and forgot about nature. Once becoming masters of their own domain, and thinking

they were superior to every life form, they began to systematically slaughter nature and

oppress it under the guise of resource as well as dominance. They forgot they were once a

part of nature. They forgot that Wolves were necessary for ecosystems to survive and that

they were in charge of these ecosystems. Wolves did live with humans in spite of this in

certain regions around the world. But this didnt last forever.

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Another reason was that Wolves were and still (even by some in the modern era), are

considered monsters. Fairy tales, like Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs,

The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Peter and the Wolf, among others still inspire fear and

hatred of Wolves. Books like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeby C.S. Lewis,

didnt help the Wolves image as the main characters kill Wolves and made a weapon out

of them called Wolfsbane3. Even over the past year, the films The Chronicles of Narnia

(and its games),Lady In the Water, and Cry Wolf, still represent the wolf that is

associated with these fairy tales, a monster that loves to murder and people and eat

children. An image that is a lie and one that many still believe in.

They were also slaughtered because of livestock issues. Because ranchers chose not to

co-exist with Wolves and find out ways to peacefully prevent livestock issues, Wolves

were slaughtered not just by them but their hired guns, the U.S. Government. This

continues this very day, in a different war: The War For the Wolf.

1Wolf FAQ2pg. 96Neither God Nor Devil3Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe


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By the 1500s, The War Against the Wolf, was already under way. By this time Wolves

were already annihilated from England.4 Soon they would be annihilated in other parts

of the world.

The last Scottish Wolves were destroyed completely by 1864. The Irish Wolves wereannihilated by 1770. And the last Wolves in Denmark were destroyed by 1772. And

Bavaria, the last Wolves were slaughtered by 1847.5

The War Against the Wolf picked up then in the United States during the 1800s. Wolfers

headed the effort at this time. Wolfers are those who werent of the government who

hunted down Wolves and slaughtered them. One of the ways they were slaughtered was

through the use of poisons. In particular Wolves were poisoned though strychnine by

Wolfers. Poisoning through the use of strychnine was commonly used from 1860-1885.6

This is the way that Wolfers createdstrychnine. (Picture from The Wolves of North AmericaPt. 1)

4pg. 8 Vicious5pg. 8 Vicious6pg. 318 The Wolves of North America Pt. 1


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Wolves would not only be poisoned, but so were pups and the slaughter was

photographed.7

(Picture fromVicious pg. 72)

During this time in the U.S., people set fire to thousands of acres of land to get rid ofWolves. Forests, crops, and more were burned alive.

Wolf hunters who captured Wolves did many horrible things to them before releasing

them. Such as cutting off their Achilles tendons, wiring their jaws shut, or even sawing

off their lower jaws. Since they could not survive because they couldn't eat, or even

move, they would endure a death that no one would want to experience.8

Eskimos even used weapons to murder Wolves. Weapons like the one in the picture was

used to torture, and murder the wolf that was the target. Such weapons like this dont

create a bond or a connection to nature.

7pg. 71 Vicious8pg. 118Neither God Nor Devil: Rethinking Our Perceptions of Wolves


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(Picture from The Wolf of North Americapt. 1)

It was created out of Whale bone. It would be heated, and twisted into a spiral and tied,

smeared with fat. After consumed, the body heat and the process of digestion causes the

bone spiral to loosen and it then pierces through the stomach. This would create an

agonizing death for the wolf. This is because its stomach would be pierced and the

stomach acid would burn in the inside of its body while the stomach would be

destroyed.9

One of the most painful ways to die for a human is to get shot in the stomach. Imagine if

your stomach was pierced and impaled by a hard piercing object. Not pleasant indeed.

Wolves were set on fire with gasoline while they were still alive.10

Much like the Native Americans, they would meet the same fate, their cultures nearly

annihilated and slaughtered by thousands if not millions. By 190411

, Wolves even as far

as in Japan would be totally destroyed through the coaxing of a Ohio Rancher by the

name of Edwin Dun.12

The U.S. Government was persuaded by the Ranching Community in the early 1900s to

hunt down and slaughter Wolves from the face of the nation. The U.S. Biological

9pg. 261 The Wolves of North America Pt. 110pg. 118Neither God Nor Devil: Rethinking Our Perceptions Of Wolves11Going Going Gone..Extinct...........Kaput12Meiji Modernization, Scientific: Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf


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Survey13

in addition to the National Park Service14

began their operations to wipe Wolves

off the face of the U.S.15

They started their operation to annihilate Wolves by using

several methods: hunting camps, poisoning Wolves through the continued use of

strychnine, bounties (which goes back as far as the 1400s in Scotland16

), traps, and the

destruction of wolf pups.17

It should be noted that the President at that time, Theodore

Roosevelt, supported the annihilation of Wolves in the U.S.

They had Wolf Hunting Camps, where they systematically hunted down Wolves and

slaughtered them. They had photographs of hundreds of corpses that they collected.18

Pups were captured so their cries of help would be answered and those who came would

be murdered.19

Pups would also be strangled to death.

(A Wolf Hunter Camp in Wyoming, Picture from The Wolves of North America Pt. 1pg. 317)

In the 1900s in the U.S., the disease known as mange was used to infect captured

Wolves in the hopes of spreading to other Wolves. Not only did Wolves suffer, but

livestock and other animals.20

13pg. 149 War Against the Wolf14pg. 201 War Against the Wolf15pg. 149 War Against the Wolf16pg. 339 The Wolves of North America Pt. 117pg. 150-157 War Against the Wolf18pg. 317 The Wolves of North America Pt. 119pg. 281 The Wolves of North America Pt.120pg. 118Neither God Nor Devil: Rethinking Our Perceptions of Wolves


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Agents from the U.S. Biological Survey would use methods that were equally sinister and

horrific to slaughter Wolves. One agent in history (name unknown) would dig shallow

holes for his traps. He would cover them with a thin layer of dirt, and bait the plants left

of the traps. These were plants that were at one point used by Wolves as scent posts.

Drops from a mixture of urine and excretions from the gall and anal glands of former

captive Wolves was added to the plants. It was designed so that when a wolf detected thestrange scent, it would investigate and get caught in the trap to later be murdered.

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In Arizona the trapper Stanley Young, who started out as a U.S. Biological Survey as a

trapper, would become a monster beyond what he was already. He would be the director

of the agencys Predator Control (murder) Program. His activities were just as heinous as

the U.S. Biological Surveys methods. As told by Philip Gipson, former Animal Damage

Control biologist (a dark irony since these Humans slaughtered countless Wolves), said

that wolf males were captured, muzzled and chained.22

The USBS would then wrap a thin

wire around the wolfs penis so it couldnt urinate. After this sick torture, they would

murder the wolf and collect its urine so they could use it as a scent in traps to capture

and murder more Wolves.23

Wolf hunters like Bill Shaw even captured wolf pups and used them as bait to lure other

Wolves so he could slaughter them.24

By 1900, the Polish Wolves were extinct because of humans as well as in France by

1927.25

By 1945, Wolf bounties and the U.S. Government, (which just finished World War II by

nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki and before that defeating the Nazis) finished the

destruction of all Wolves in Colorado.26

The USFWS then would absorb the U.S.B.S. in

1940 and continue the wolf extermination operation starting in 1946. In particular theyquickly dealt with the Wolves that were crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S.

and also would begin war against the Wolves in Mexico.27

Not too long after this the last Wolves in Mexico were totally annihilated by 1960.28

In 1975, the last wolf in Yellowstone Park, was murdered29

. Wolves, including Mexican

Gray Wolves and Red Wolves, were practically wiped out in the United States thanks to

Government Agencies, Ranchers and Wolfers. And Wolves were nearly wiped out all

around the world, except for Alaska, Canada, Minnesota and China.

21pg. 141 The Wolves of North America Pt. 1

22pg. 140 The Wolves of North America Pt. 123pg. 140 The Wolves of North America Pt. 124pg. 71 Vicious25pg. 8 Vicious26Colorado's Proposed Wolf Reintroduction Raises Hopes and Hackles27pg. 185 War Against the Wolf28pg. 186 War Against the Wolf29Yellowstone: Winter Wonderland


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It wouldnt be until 20 years later that a new war would begin, The War For the Wolf.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

Wolves were still in Minnesota after 1975. The murderous U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

would start continuing their work by using methods of murder in livestock depredationissues by Wolves. It was started in 1978s when Wolves were delisted from Endangered

Species Act to Threatened status under the Endangered Species Act. This would allow

them to slaughter Wolves in livestock issues.30

These methods are used this very day by this same agencies and others such as Fish and

Games, Department of Natural Resources, and Wildlife Services. And Non-Lethal

Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching Practices are still denied and lied about to the

public by these agencies. They are as a result, Eco-Fascists as well as those who support

these agencies. Eco-Fascism is the idea of humans being able to commit atrocity against

nature because they are the highest in power and oppressing nature through managing

it, murdering it, and slaughtering it. Eco-fascism is different than fascism since fascism ishumans this same that to humans and that is what the Nazis did. In both cases, those who

subscribe to this system justify it and think it is for the subjects own good or the systems

good.

Despite being one of the most hated, feared and oppressed races on Earth and nearly

annihilated in the U.S. and around the world, they started to return to the U.S. not long

after 1975. They began to return to Montana in the 1980s.31

Plans to return Wolves to the U.S. were in motion, though those who would return them

would become as evil as their predecessors.

THE WAR FOR THE WOLF

The more things change, the more they stay the same Snake Plissken, Escape From L.A.

The War for the Wolf, which is still going on, is a war to bring peace between humans

and Wolves and to re-colonize Wolves to their homelands. It is also to protect their

rights.

Many events started this, and the atrocities that are still being committed on Wolves are

horrific and unjustifiable. Some events too have been positive and uplifting. This war

would begin in the U.S.

A select group of Wolves were captured from Canada and brought to Yellowstone in

1995. It was an effort that was almost stopped by the U.S. Government. Those who were

involved with the effort were Ed Bangs, Carter Niemeyer, Mike Jimenez, Doug Smith,

and others.32

30The Ecological Relationship Of Gray Wolves And White-Tailed Deer In Minnesota31Depredation on Livestock and Pets32Decade of the Wolf


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Although the program was successful due to different ways of acclimating Wolves to

their local environment, releasing them and populations started growing, it wouldnt be

long until events would repeat themselves of the past.

Ed Bangs would be soon in charge of Wolves in Montana. Mike Jimenez would be in

charge of Wolves in Wyoming. And Carter Niemeyer would be in charge of Wolves inIdaho in 2000

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All would soon employ and endorse murder of Wolves in livestock issues. Niemeyer in

particular felt guilty at first for slaughtering Wolves with his shotgun. But he too was

already evil and would become something hideous.34

In the 1980s Wolves began to return to Norway and Sweden. Years later and even in the

present, the governments of both these countries conduct aerial culling operations.

Although the governments had protections set up for them in the 1960s in Norway and

the 1970s in Sweden which those outside of the government who kill them are arrested,

the government gets away with murder every year. Once again, the lack of use of Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching to prevent livestock depredations from

occurring and protecting hunting dogs has caused public opinion to rise in the aspect of

hating and wanting Wolves murdered.35

Despite this, groups that support the Wolves in

Norway and Sweden have been on the rise since the end of the 20th

Century.

As of this year Norway wants only 3 wolf packs.36

Three and yet the whole population of

Norway of Humans as of July of 2006 is 4,660,387.37

In the late 1990s in Alaska, the mass murdering of Wolves by aerial hunting by the state

would resume. In 1999, the dreaded Senate Bill 74, formed by Senator Pete Kelly which

would allow aerial hunting of Wolves was created38

. It was banned by the Governor TonyKnowles. But despite public outcry and opposition of aerial wolf hunting in Alaska, it

was passed in 2000 under a new name, SB 267. It was supported by Governor Tony

Knowles who originally banned aerial wolf hunting in 1994 and struck down SB 7439

.

And soon Wolves were slaughtered en masse. After Knowles was gone from office, he

was soon replaced by Governor Frank Murkowski in November of 2002. At first he

supported the Wolves. But he was soon supported by the Alaskan Department of Fish and

Game and Hunters. Because of this, he changed his mind40

and began the slaughter of

Wolves in 200441

.

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New wolf manager brings experience, expertise to a difficult job34Wolf at the door

35Wolf Comeback in Scandinavia Stifled by Public Outcry36Wolf Comeback in Scandinavia Stifled by Public Outcry37Statistics Norway Website: Population38Senator Pete Kelly Announces Bill Giving Fish and Game More Flexibility in Handling Predator-Prey

Management Programs392000 Enacted and Vetoed Legislation40Wolf Hunting Plan Gets National Attention41Wolf History, Conservation, Ecology and Behavior News Clippings: November 2004


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Here is one of the results of their slaughter.

In April of 2002, after the USFWS had slaughtered countless Wolves for many years,

they slaughtered a famous wolf pack called the Whitehawk Pack in Idaho. Despite public

outcry and Ed Bangs getting more than a 100 emails asking for the halting of this, Carter

Niemeyer personally slaughtered the rest of the pack. He lied also about Non-Lethal

Methods being used their fullest. Although he knew what he did was wrong, heslaughtered the Whitehawk Pack in the end. It wasnt the first time he and his cohorts

lied and murdered Wolves. And it certainly wouldnt be the last.42

Ralph Maughan blamed the issue on the Whitehawk Pack because he thought at the time

that there were too many Wolves.43

Strange how many millions of people occupy the

U.S. and how few land there is for other creatures to live on. And strange how so much

evidence shows that livestock issues can be peacefully prevented through the use of Non-

Lethal Methods Only and Predator Friendly Ranching Practices.44

(Pictures of Ed Bangs, Carter

Niemeyer)

42The Death of the Whitehawk Pack and the Ethics forgotten by those in charge of Wolf Recovery43Wolf at the door44Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching


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The Department of Natural Resources in Wisconsin led

by the murderous Adrian Wydeven would too slaughter Wolves and did so until the

practice had been suspended by a judge last month. He like the USFWS is highly against

the promotion, distribution and enforcement of Non-Lethal Methods and Predator

Friendly Ranching Practices in livestock issues.45

Defenders of Wildlife was a pioneer of Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly

Ranching Practices. At first they helped the ranchers, the Holders to do this46

. But they

would soon raise the banner themselves of corruption and support the murder of Wolves

in livestock issues.

In 2004 the plight of Kei the Wolf was revealed. Kei is a wolf that inhabits the Okinawa

Zoo.

(Kei the Wolf)

Okinawa is an island that is off the coast of southwestern Japan. A campaign to help Kei

was created by Earl Bingley (President of Canadian Voice for Animals) and now is run

by Greg Leisure. The campaign was created at first to free Kei from this zoo, who for

twelve years imprisoned her in a 7 X 5 meter cage. The conditions Kei lived in were

45Judge blocks state from killing problem wolves46Wolf Friendly Beef


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terrible. Thanks to two years of activist intervention, Kei now has a bigger enclosure and

can go indoors to leave the area of humans. Although a release of Kei was the original

objective, at least some progress was made. Kei couldnt at this point be transported to

the States without dying, so a victory is still a victory.47

Deliberations took place starting in July of 2004 over the possibility of Wolves returningto Colorado and how they should be managed. This wasnt too long after a wolf was ran

over on Interstate 70 in Colorado. A variety of interest groups forming under what was

called a working group, were on a panel to discuss what they think should be the fate of

Wolves should more enter Colorado.48

The Heart of the Wolf Organization was created

around the time the deliberations began. This was the hope to finally bring to the public

the idea of getting humans to live with Wolves without violent or oppressive means.49

In

particular the revelation about what has been buried because of denials and lies for so

long, Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching Practices, was revealed.

These are practices that prevent losses to both sides, wolf and livestock alike. Through

cattle rotation, livestock protecting dogs and fences, it has been scientifically been

proven to work.50

Heart of the Wolf was created also to expose the truth about those who murder Wolves.

Ed Bangs was there too, one of the worst wolf murderers. Not only did he purposely

ignore the proof and validity of Non-Lethal methods and Predator Friendly Ranching, he

lied to the working group through a power point about the effectiveness of murder in

livestock issues. He also ignored my speech about the subject to the working group.51

He and the USFWS would soon rush to get Wolves delisted from Endangered to

Threatened. This would also prevented Wolves from being reintroduced elsewhere.

Thats because they thought their job was done and that Wolves were recovered52

.

In February of 2005 a Federal District Court Judge by the name of Robert E. Jones

(District Court of Oregon), uphold the Endangered Status of Wolves in the United States.

This had big implications. For one, it would allow the continued growth of wolf

populations in the U.S. It also was supposed to protect Wolves from being destroyed in

livestock issues53

. Of course the USFWS, and other Government Agencies got around

this, because they still slaughter Wolves every week.. The Wisconsin DNR who prided

itself on slaughtering Wolves in livestock issues didnt expect this to happen. They

waged a campaign to get permits (and succeeded for a year) to slaughter Wolves in

livestock issues led by Adrian Wydeven, and Ron Refsnider. And believe it or not, one of

47Active Campaign To Get Kei The Wolf In Japan Better Living Conditions!48Colorado Gray Wolf Management Working Group Meeting: July 13-14, 200449War For The Wolf50Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching51Colorado Gray Wolf Management Working Group Meeting: July 13-14, 200452Fed moving ahead with wolf delisting efforts53Wolves Win: Federal Judge Upholds Endangered Species Act Protections


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the supporters to cull and murder Wolves in livestock issues is none other than the world

renowned Wolf Expert, David Mech.54

In his book, Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and

Conservation, he even advocates murdering Wolves in livestock issues to solve

depredation issues.55

Rolf Peterson, who is also a wolf-expert as inspired by Mechs

work to support the murder of Wolves in livestock issues.56

In March of 2005, a Wolf Biologist that worked for the Alaskan Government by the name

of Lena S., was nearly killed. She opposed her governments policy of slaughtering

Wolves. Ran off the road and left for dead, she luckily made a full recovery. Because of

this incident, she had to leave the state and go into hiding.57

In May of 2005, a wolf was murdered by the French Government58

on French news

programs59

.

April 2005,Peoples Daily Onlinerevealed how the governments in China murder

Wolves to protect the deer populations for their own economical gain. Sound familiar?

This is exactly what the Alaskan Government is doing to Wolves. Culling Wolves bysaying that they are protecting the prey animals which are in turn slaughtered by hunters

for economical gain.60

In September of 2005, an article calledVictims Of Their Own Successwas published. In

this article, Defenders of Wildlife and Carter Niemeyer both supported the murdering of

Wolves in livestock issues. Defenders of Wildlife who pioneered Predator Friendly

Ranching, and helped the ranchers the Holders start it and endorse it, didnt mention it at

all.61

This same year, a wolf in Turkey dubbed Kurt by activists, was captured and tortured.

Despite letters from activists around the world he is still believed to be tortured andcaptured.

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54Protection of wolves could bring backlash

55pg. 336 Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation56'Wolf Man' set to retire from teaching57Biologists Against Wolf Culling Assaulted in Alaska!58Murder of Wolf in France Caused by Ministry!59Murder of Wolf in France on National Television!60No good for protecting the deer by killing the wolf61Victims of Their Own Success62Stop the Torture and Abuse of Kurt the Wolf!!


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(Kurt the Wolf)

In November of 2005, Wolves were framed for the death of a man due to unknown

circumstances in Points North Landing, Canada. Things went from bad to worse as theCanadian press and the Canadian Environmental Department automatically blamed the

Wolves that were in the area for the death of the man. The Canadian Government then

allowed humans to murder Wolves in 'self-defense' after false news reports said Wolves

killed a man. After that, scientists from the Ministry of Natural Resources wanted to have

Wolves murdered for 'research.'

They wanted to find out population of information of Wolves. Numbers, gender and

species. And they believed they could do that by killing Wolves and examining their

body

parts. The Canadian Government just used this as an excuse to mass murder Wolves. The

MNR wanted to enlist hunters and trappers, who are more than eager to murder Wolves.

Two Wolves in the area of Points North Landing, Canada were murdered not long after

this. And the magazine Field and Stream leapt onto the bandwagon. They believed and

propagandized that Wolves killed that man and had a poll that asked whether Wolves

should be hunted. Luckily in that poll, the Wolves won. Believe it or not, this whole issue

and the murders of the Wolves occurred within a span of a week.63

It should be noted that the findings as to what really killed that man were never released

or reported about.

In December of 2005 the film version of Chronicles of Narniawould be released. A film

that once again would paint Wolves as monsters. An investigative report by this writer

would reveal that the Wolf-dog that was used in this film by the name Maverick, was

loaned by the notorious Gentle Jungle. This is a group that has been responsible for many

cases of animal abuse. They loaned it to Nancy Brown from the Black Mountain Full

Moon Farm. She thought that by making Wolves portrayed in this film as evil and

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showing Maverick around to the press would promote a positive image for Wolves.

When these parties were exposed, they contacted Wolf-dog breeders via the Yahoo

network who profited off of Wolf-dogs, like Mike Eisenfeld. This was an attempt to get

this article writer banned from Wolf groups on Yahoo. Nancy Brown also tried to use

intimidation tactics like threatening legal action and other tactics like the conservation

group Sinapu had done in the past to Heart of the Wolf. All attempts failed.64

It wasnt the first film in 2005 to portray the Wolf as evil. The film, Cry Wolfwas

released earlier on that year. It was inspired by The Boy Who Cried Wolf, which was

a fairy tale about a boy was supposed to guard sheep from a wolf. He lied about the wolf

being around and when the wolf shows up, he gets eaten by the wolf. A tale rooted in lies

would be the basis of this terrible horror film. Cry Wolfhad to do with a group of college

students where they make a game which made it seem like someone was murdered and

more occur on campus. Well someone gets the idea to actually take their game seriously

and start murdering people and that guy is called, 'The Wolf'.65

2006 held many challenges for the Wolves as their oppression continues.

In February, the Wolf mass murderer Carter Niemeyer would retire from his position as

head of Wolf Recovery of the USFWS in Idaho. Those who tout themselves as Wolf

supporters but in fact support the slaughter of Wolves like UK Wolf Trust and Ralph

Maughan of the For Wolves Organization, heralded him as a hero and hoped he would

have a nice retirement.66

It wouldnt be long until Niemeyer would begin to work for

the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.67

This same month, another Wolf returns to Colorado.68

In March of 2006, the former Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, resigned her postamid scandals having to do with Native American Casinos. Gale Norton was always a

threat to Wolves, and to wildlife. In September of 2005 she pushed for Wolves to be

murdered in all livestock issues that involved Wolves after being persuaded by Governor

Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho to do so. Before she resigned her position she did some

startling things. She turned over management of Wolves over to the state of Idaho. Idaho

wasted no time murdering Wolves before they would create a management plan.69

Management plans only oppress, control, and murder Wolves since they are not allowed

to live freely like all life since humans are obsessed with controlling life.

In April of 2006, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game wanted to slaughter 43

Wolves. This is because they claimed that Wolves decimated elk populations. In addition

64Chronicles of the Exploited: A look at the conspiracy behind the misrepresentation of Wolves in

Chronicles of Narnia65Cry Wolf66Wolf Murderers in the Past: Carter Niemeyer67Gray Wolf Recovery, Week of 5/12 to 5/19, 200668Videos: Colorado Division of Wildlife69Wolf Murderers in the Past: Gale Norton


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to these false allegations, they claimed to have scientific proof to these allegations.70

Fortunately many Americans and citizens around the world were not fooled by their

lies.71

The plan was aborted, but they continue along with the Idaho Wildlife Services,

led by Mark Collinge, to murder Wolves every week in Idaho.

This same month, Governor Dirk Kempthorne was nominated by President Bush to fillthe role of Secretary of the Interior. Thus Kempthorne would become Secretary of the

Interior. Kempthorne upon receiving nomination wanted to see Wolves slaughtered on

the Montana border claiming that they were decimating elk. Of course this was a lie and

an excuse to want to slaughter more Wolves.72

Before Norton left officially, she was

responsible for the murder of Wolves and proposed the idea of turning over Wolves in

the Great Lakes area to the Great Lakes States. This would come into fruition as the

USFWS and the Department of the Interior began to take comments in April on their

proposal to turn over the management of Wolves in the Great Lakes Region to the Great

Lakes States.

Alaska also expanded their aerial wolf culling operations this year. The AlaskanDepartment of Fish and Game had meetings on May 12-14 of 2006 to discuss a new

proposal called 122. It was a proposal to slaughter 75% of Wolves in the Fourtymile

Caribou herd range.73

Also in May of 2006, a zoo by the name of Highland Park in Scotland murdered a

Scandinavian Wolf pack through euthanization in order to replace them with another

pack. At first they said it was because of the management plan74

, and then they said it

was because the pack was having problems.75

Those who murder and commit acts of

horror commonly lie to justify just about anything they do

In late May of 2006, a section was added to Heart of the Wolf Organization calledHonor Fallen and Oppressed Wolves. It, inspired by Memorial Day and organizations

like Killed in Action, was created to honor all Wolves who were and still are oppressed

and murdered this very day.76

The Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program (started in 199877

) became a failure more

than ever in this same month when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the behest of

the White Mountain Apache Reservation slaughtered a wolf pack and its pups despite

protest.78

It is a shocking revelation that anyone from any race, gender, or age can and

will support the murder and oppression and Wolves.

70IdahoWolf Control Proposal

71Idaho aims to kill wolves72Costs climb as wolf suits continue73http://www.boards.adfg.state.ak.us/gameinfo/meetinfo/2005-2006/may12bogproposals.pdf74Wolves culled at Highland wildlife park75Wildlife park culls pack of wolves 'to stop them killing each other76Honor Fallen and Oppressed Wolves Website77Gray Wolves Make Zoo New Home78 9 captured members of wolf pack are dead


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The populations of these Wolves hasnt not risen much at all because of the USFWS

slaughtering Wolves in livestock issues. And it has been going on for awhile. This is

because of many reasons. For one, cattle carcasses of those cows who die arent removed

from the land that they died on. This naturally attracts Wolves who are looking for food.

Second, the USFWS knows about Non-Lethal Methods Only and Predator Friendly

Ranching. And like the USFWS of the Gray Wolf Recovery Program, they donteducate, implement, or enforce these methods. They break the law by slaughtering

Wolves in livestock issues. This prevents wolf populations from growing and populating

their former land and creates more slaughter.79

This would happen more and more in

June80

and July of 200681

.

In June of 2006 another conservation group would follow the path of darkness. The

group, Center of Biological Diversity, supported the idea of murdering Wolves in

livestock issues once Mexican Gray Wolf populations are up to 100 Wolves.82

July of 2006, the film,Lady in the Waterby M. Night Shyamalan would be released. It

was another film that would portray Wolves as monsters. This film touted itself as a darkfairy tale.

83It follows the tales like Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf,

The Three Little Pigs, and Peter and the Wolf, which continue to inspire fear and hate

of Wolves and leads to their deaths.

Early August of 2006, Defenders of Wildlife knew that a wolf pack was going to be

slaughtered by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Calls from the press were

ignored.84

Small wonder since last year Suzanne Stone of Defenders fully supported

along with Carter Niemeyer, the murder of Wolves in livestock issues.85

Canadas branch

of Defenders also supports the murdering of Wolves in livestock issues.86

And this month

they bragged that they were the ones responsible for the low voting turnout for Governor

Frank Murkowski. They forget that many activists, not just them, pure of heart, like LenaS., have been fighting for Wolves in Alaska. And voters in the end were responsible for

the turnout, not ego trips.

Also in August, Ed Bangs said that they have used these horrific methods since 1987 and

only 400 Wolves have been slaughtered.87

This is mathematically impossible. Wolves are

slaughtered in the area of about 10 a week in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. So if that

were ten Wolves murdered a week for a year, you would have at least 600 Wolves

slaughtered every year. So 17 years multiplied by 600 would be at least 10,200 Wolves.

Of course this is Ed Bangs we are talking about, who is a liar and murderer.

79Action Alerts Page: Heart of the Wolf Website

80Cattle-killing wolf shot dead81Wolf shot after attacks on cattle82Campaign Unavailable83Lady In the Water844 wolves killed after livestock deaths; more killings authorized85Victims of Their Own Success86Is killing off big, bad wolves the best way to halt attacks?87Wyoming says it will sue feds over wolf management


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He lied in early August about the effectiveness and scientific proof of Non-Lethal

Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching. He met also with Carolyn Sime, Wolf

Management Coordinator for the State Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks in

Montana that same week.88

Because she too subscribes to these lies, she not a week later

after she met with him did she slaughter the Sleeping Child pack.89

Also in August Dough Smith, Wolf Biologist in an interview revealed his full support of

the eradication of Wolves near ranching properties.90

August 9th

of 2006, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington,

D.C. stopped the slaughter of Wolves in livestock issues. This is because she deemed the

practice unethical and hindering wolf populations. Already her decision has saved 10

Wolves from being slaughtered by Adrian Wydeven. He already is complaining about the

decision and wants Wolves to be murdered in livestock issues even after he knows that

Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching work.91

In September of 2006, Defenders of Wildlife released a manual called,Places forWolves. Its a document that goes into what they think constitutes Wolf Recovery. They

claim to have always supported Non-Lethal Methods to this very day92

, which of course

is a lie. The creepiest part has to be that the opening page has a quote by the murderous

Ed Bangs93

, who is responsible for the same murders in livestock issues that Defenders

even denounces in their own manual94

. Since Defenders not only has supported the

murders of Wolves in livestock issues in Idaho but also in Canada95

, one should

definitely watch it with this group.

For more information on the current happenings of Wolves and what threats they face, go

to the Action Alerts section of the Heart of the Wolf Organizations Website as well as

http://timberwolfinformation.org/info/archieve/newspapers/wolfnews.htm

The Wolves not just have a long horrible history with humans, but they have enemies that

are not just government agencies, hunters, hunting outfitters or ranchers. In fact some are

even in the non-profit sector.

SHEEP IN WOLFS CLOTHING

The phrase Sheep in Wolfs Clothing is the phrase that means people who claim to be

in support of Wolves or a part of their lives are not and are something sinister. It is these

same people who claim to support Wolves but instead support the oppression and

88Gray Wolf Recovery, Week of 7/28 to 8/04/200689Wolf pack that harassed livestock near Sula being killed90Interview: Doug Smith on Making Room for Wolves91Judge blocks state from killing problem wolves92pg. 4, 9Places for Wolves93pg. 5Places for Wolves94pg. 16Places for Wolves95What Will Work?


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destruction of Wolves. It also is those who are greedy people that support themselves

only at the expense of Wolves. And often these people combat true honest activists and

when exposed, claim to be the victim.

Many fall into this category. Primarily it is the growing number of conservationists that

fall to corruption. Some consider the blacklisting of these sinister people in non-profitgroups akin to high school drama. But the problem is that non-profit groups need police

themselves as much as they police those who they consider evil.

Here are some listed below and their own misdeeds. Defenders of Wildlife and Center of

Biological Diversity, David Mech were highlighted above. but there are other groups and

people that are just as sinister.

In April 2005, the bookDecade of the Wolf by Doug Smith and Gary Ferguson was

released which heralded the murderers Ed Bangs, Carter Niemeyer, and Mike Jimenez as

heroes. The book was supported by false wolf activists who support the murder of

Wolves in livestock issues like Ralph Maughan, and the organization of Sinapu whichsupported a showing of the book.

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Ralph Maughan is the creator of the organization For Wolves. He supports the U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service and thinks they are the heroes of Wolf Conservation (also indicated

by his over the top review ofDecade of the Wolf on Amazon.com). He personally

attended the retirement ceremony of Carter Niemeyer. He supports the murder of Wolves

in livestock issues and doesnt promote or support Non-Lethal Methods or Predator

Friendly Ranching like most conservation organizations. He also is a supporter of

murdering Wolves if it is scientifically proven to be helpful.97

Danna Cruzan of Wolf Mountain Sanctuary is another one of these people. She is moreinteresting in making money at the Wolves expense than supporting Wolves and those

who do. She is also a member of the site Care2.com, which is rife with people who are

corrupt. In March of 2006 she made false reports about this writer and again last month. I

had some of her pictures in my photo album on the Care2 network. I made a disclaimer

that clearly stated that the pictures in my photo album were the property of their original

owners and are copyrighted by them. She didnt care about that, she just wanted money

from the pictures. She waged a crusade to get me banned from Care2 and made

spamming posts at the group that I used to co-host, Wolf Tracks. Despite the initial

support I received from the group host Cindy Minde, and working hard to make Wolf

Tracks a driving force for Wolf conservation, she too would betray me by kicking me out

of Wolf Tracks. She would then re-instate Danna Cruzan AKA Angel Wolf as a co-director.

When I was being attacked last month on Care2.com by her supporters, and those who

were once loyal activists to Heart of the Wolf, I had to withdraw except for my groups96Decade Supporters97Idaho Gains full control over wolf management. Idaho Fish and Game Commission to plan killing

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that I host and co-host on Care2. Upon meeting a confidential informant, I found out

really disturbing information about Wolf Mountain Sanctuary.

This informant, who once sponsored WMS, went to that sanctuary in 2002 and

discovered that they only had permits for 12 Wolves and actually had 20. They were in

hospital pens with cement floors. I was told from this informant that they saw threeWolves, Dakota and Segoni (brothers along with another wolf) crammed in a enclosure

that was 50 x 50. This source also mentioned that Dakota and Segoni looked desperate to

leave. I was also told that three Wolves died in these enclosures later on. Whether the

conditions still continue or not isn't the point. The fact that things were so bad in the past

caused my informant, who has lots of financial influence, to stop supporting this place.

There are many places like Gentle Jungle which claim to promote that they doing good

by having animals but instead treat them bad and solely are in it for the money, like

Danna Cruzan.

That same month I posted a picture exposing her misdeeds, but it was removed by the

Care2 network. They chose to believe her rather than myself. I was also banned frommany groups for my article exposing the false portrayal of Wolves inLady in the Water.

These were groups that I used to co-host, like Kucinski Wildlife Foundation and Philip

Clonas Save the Wolves Foundation.

Sinapu is not that different. Sinapu last year officially supported Mountain Lion hunting

in Colorado98

. In particular by Wendy Keefover-Ring. She in 2001 rejected to help the

Wolves while Sinapu was STILL a Wolf group. When I revealed in 2001 her declining to

help Wolves to the non profit sector and what that meant, I resigned my position as doing

data entry for the former director of Colorado Environment Coalition/Campus Green

Vote, Amy Livingston. This was because Livingston was opposed to the revealing of

such information and that impacted where I worked as date entry at that time.

Sinapu bullies and oppresses their own people in addition to those they work with. From

a confidential source, it was revealed to me that the original founder and director of

Sinapu, Michael Robinson, was ousted from his own group through a coup detat by the

current staff. As a result Michael Robinson went to the Center of Biological Diversity. At

the University of Colorado, they had a subsidiary group called CU Sinapu. A difference

in policy caused them to fight and Sinapu forced them to change their name. They

changed their groups name to CU Wildlife Initiative. But soon they were serving Sinapu

once again, like a dog to its master. This was evident by the fact that last year both

groups hosted an event at the University of Colorado which had the authors Jim and

Jamie Dutcher (Living With Wolves). At this event, I asked politely if I could pass outbrochures for Heart of the Wolf Organization. CU Wildlife Initiative was fearful of doing

this, but reluctantly agreed for a bit. They put my brochures in a small spot where you

could tell that no one would see it. I decided to set it in a section and print out a big sign

that definitely stated that my group had no relation to theirs. Sinapu hated this. In fact,

the director of Sinapu even told me this to my face. Out of disgust for the CU Wildlife

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Initiative not taking initiative and becoming the loyal dog to its master rather than an

independent group, as well as Sinapu for opposing the peaceful promotion of another

wolf group, I left. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that it was the same time

that they supported mountain lion hunting and I confronted them about it.99

Sinapu celebrated the recent denying of delisting of Wolves in Wyoming thinking thatthe USFWS is doing ecologically minded work. They couldnt be more wrong. In fact the

only reason Wolves were not delisted was because they didnt want a plan that would

advocate wholesale slaughter. If Sinapu acts like this and supports Mountain Lion

hunting, when Wolves are possibly delisted someday, the Wolves will be next on their

target sight.100

Sierra Club, one of the most famous non-profit organizations in the world,

supports hunting too.101

Their higher level administrative staff have hunting trips and are

active hunters.102

In fact, the former President of the Sierra Club, Paul Watson, resigned

because of this fact.103

Wolves Ontario tends to jump back and forth on their ideology. They claim to support

Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching104

in addition to banning of huntingand other practices in certain spots of Ontario. But on the other hand, their language is

often tricky and they only see the Wolves salvation in Ontario to be only through a

management plan and limited hunting.105

As much sadness and corruption that has been haunting the wolf and its supporters, here

are some things to celebrate and be happy about. And that is the ever growing of positive

reinforcement of Wolves in popular culture.

WOLVES IN POP CULTURE

Wolves after being annihilated around the world soon began to get a rise in literature,movies and music that brought to light what these creatures are really like.

This had its start in the late 1980s.

Never Cry Wolf

99Sinapu Has Fallen100Feds Deny Wyo. Petition to Delist Wolves101Why I Hunt Essay Contest102Who We Are: Some of Sierra Club's Conservation Leaders103Sierra Club Director Resigns to Protest Hunting Prize104pg. 24 Ontario wolves under threat! The call for a provincial wolf protection plan.105pg. 23 Ontario wolves under threat! The call for a provincial wolf protection plan.


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1983 Amarok Productions Ltd., Walt Disney Pictures

Never Cry Wolf, a movie that was surprisingly distributed by Disney in 1983, was about a

Canadian scientist, Farley Mowat. He was sent by his government to learn more about

Wolves in order to better destroy them. Upon entering their territory and observing themand discovering what they were really like, rebelled against his government and refused

to do what they sent him out to do. This film was based on the factual book written by

Farley Mowat.106

The Wind and the Wolf

2000 Keiko Matsui

In 1990, the albumNo Borderswas released by the artist Matsui Kazu and Keiko.107

They are wonderful Smooth Jazz artists whose careers have been strong since the1980s.

108The albumNo Bordershad the wonderful song, The Wind and the Wolf. A

song that was dedicated to the Wolves and even had choreography that mimics Wolves at

their live performances.109

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The song was so popular that in 2000, the Matsuis released and album that was called

The Wind and The Wolf.110

The album was released overseas, but thanks to the power of

technology, can be purchased via the Internet.

Werewolf the Apocalypse

(Cover of Werewolf the Apocalypse 2ndEdition) 1994 White Wolf

Years later in 1991, the legendary series Werewolf the Apocalypsepremiered by the

company White Wolf. It was an RPG (role playing game) series that had novels and an

ongoing storyline. For the first time it portrayed Werewolves as not just good guys, but

complex creatures that were born from nature and were sworn to defend not just it, but

fight for humanity and the entire world. These Werewolves had to stop the Apocalypse

(the end of the world) from occurring. This series was created by Mark Rein-Hagen.111

Bill Bridges soon directed the series. And Ethan Skemp was in charge of the series from

1997112

until its climatic finish.113

It was a ground breaking series since it had a

supplement called Ways of the Wolf, which specifically went into detail about Wolves.

This book talked about their pack structure, ways of thinking and more.114

It was revolutionary for a game series and book series as well. Taking from many human

cultures around the world, there were wolf spirits115

, the First Wolf Spirit116

, and spirits

that took a new spin on human culture such as a heroic Fenris from Norse Mythology.117

The series had a triumphant run which ended in 2004 which the Apocalypse happens and

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the Werewolves made one last attempt to save the world.118

Believe it or not, this writers

career in fighting for Wolves began because of this wonderful series.

Megaman 7

(left: Treble, right: Bass) 1995 Capcom

Megaman was a series that was created by Capcom about the heroic robot Mega Man and

his robotic dog companion Rush, who must fight against the evil Dr. Wily and his robots.

In 1995, the 7th

installment to theMegamanseries by Capcom introduced two new

characters, Bass and Treble (known as Forte and Gospel in Japan). Both of these highly

intelligent robots, were created by Dr. Wily. Bass was neither good or evil, and he was

interested in becoming the most powerful robot in existence.119

Bass had a big respect for

humans since they created robots. And he rebelled against Wily quite often.120Treble, a

wolf robot, was his companion much like how the robotic Rush (a robot dog) was Mega

Mans companion.121

Treble was loyal to Bass and fought with him in many battles.

Rurouni Kenshin

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(Sait Hajime using the power of thewolf to fight Shishio Makoto) 2001 Anime Works

This landmark series from Japan which was a successful graphic novel series created byWatsuki Nobuhiro soon came to Japanese television in 1996 and the U.S. in 2000.

Rurouni Kenshinwas about a wanderer by the name Kenshin Himura who in 1878 finally

stops wandering and fights many battles to save Japan and against corruption wherever

he finds it.122

The second part of the series is called the Kyoto Arc since it largely takes

place in the former capital of Japan, which is Kyoto. At the beginning of this arc, he has

flashbacks about his experiences with the Shinesengumi and with a former member

Shinsengumi Captain, Sait Hajime. Kenshin and Sait join forces as allies (but become

friends later) to stop Shishio Makoto (a madman swordsman), who wanted to rule Japan.

The Shinsengumi were called The Wolves of Mibu. Kenshin talks about how they were

ferocious in battle. How they were loyal and brave and that they dedicated their lives to

the destruction of evil and protecting the innocent as well as upholding the laws inKyoto.

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And this is why one of the reasons why they were called the Wolves of Mibu.

The Shinsengumi were a real life group and were the last Samurai Corps. At first they

were called the Wolves of Mibu among other names, as a derogatory term. But their

bravery, courage and battle prowess made the Wolf adage soon became one of adulation

and respect rather than disdain. They were formed in 1863, and were in charge of keeping

the peace in Kyoto and taking out corruption where ever it was. Although they were

defeated by the new Imperial government in 1868, there were survivors and they brought

to light the truth about the Shinsengumi. Soon their honor and reputation were once againrestored. The resurgence of them in pop culture thanks toRurouni Kenshinspawned

other shows to have them, like the successful series on NHK by the same name and the

hit Anime and Manga seriesPeacemaker Kurogane. More can be found on this writers

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own thesis about the Shinsengumi at:

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/ShinsengumiThesis.pdf

Beast Wars: Transformers and Beast Wars: Beast Machines

Beast Wars: Transformerspremiered on TV in the U.S. in 1996, and was the sequelseries to the popular Transformersseries. This series was about the heroic Maximals and

the villainous Predacons who accidentally travel back in time and crash on prehistoric

Earth. Instead of becoming robots that could transform into vehicles or weapons of

overwhelming power, these robots transformations were based on ancient animals and

dinosaurs.124

In the second season ofBeast Wars, which came out in the fall of 1997, the character

Silverbolt was introduced. This character could transform into a creature that was

combination of a wolf and an eagle. Although he had a personality that was funny and

goofy, he was a powerful warrior whose knight-like personality shown through. Like a

wolf, he was strong and loyal to his teammates, and fought hard in the Beast Wars (thewar which was the Maximals vs. The Predacons).

125

(left: SilverboltsWolf/Eagle form)(right: Silverbolts normal robot form) 2004 Hasbro

At the series end, he and the Maximals return to Cybertron (The Transformers home

planet).126

In 1999 the sequel toBeast Warspremiered on TV, which was named Beast Wars: Beast

Machines. It was about the Maximals returning to a Cybertron where the leader of the

Predacons, Megatron, has taken control. This series reached a level of interestingcontroversy since the Maximals at first thought the battle was about Nature vs.

Technology, but it soon became the battle of Nature co-existing with Technology.

Another shocking revelation was that their home planet Cybertron, was once an Earth-

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like planet before the creators and slave owners of the original Transformers, called the

Quintessons, severely industrialized their home planet.

Silverbolt in this series, had his soul stolen by Megatron and thrown into a body with an

evil personality. He is freed by his lover Black Arachnia, and resumes the battle to fight

Megatron in a new body. However a new wolf also takes part in the war againstMegatron.

In the second season, the character Noble appeared.

(left: Nobles the Wolf Maximal form concept art) (right: Megatrons form that inhabits the body of Noble

concept art) Concept art created by Draxhall Jump, commissioned by Hasbro 2000 Hasbro

Noble was a highly intelligent Wolf humanoid Transformer. He like his namesake and

representative of the wolf, was a noble character. Megatron, not having a body at the end

of the first season used his soul to attempt to fully take over Nobles body and soul as

well. Soon after this, Megatrons soul leaves Nobles body. Noble leaves, but soon

returns in later episodes to once again help the Maximals fight against Megatron. Once

again retaining his name sake and that of the wolf, he sacrifices his life to stop

Megatrons plan of killing his friends by stealing their souls.127

Metal Gear Solid

In 1997, a new game would be released on the Sony Playstation in the United States that

would revolutionize games forever. This game wasMetal Gear Solidby Konami and

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Kojima Productions. A groundbreaking game which had an intense story about a

mercenary Solid Snake who had to stop a group of terrorists from waging war on the

world. A complex game of a complex proportions as it isnt the terrorists that are the real

threat, but a sinister consortium that threatens to rule the entire planet. This series has

many issues, from nuclear bombings, to environmental conservation and more have made

this series a landmark for games and entertainment alike.

(Sniper Wolf with Wolf-Dog Concept Art) 2004 Konami

One of the terrorists in the game, Sniper Wolf, was an expert sniper who was a Kurd. She

in her past had to endure the horrors of war as a child when the U.S. left the Middle East

after the Gulf War. Her name for one since she is a Kurd is also reflected because of her

connection with the Wolf-dogs on the Alaskan base where her organization, Fox-Hound,conducted its last operation. She saved the Wolf-dogs from being killed by her own

organization.

Battling Solid Snake, she lost and having suffered so much in life, she find solace

knowing that she was going to die. She felt that in waging vengeance for the horrible past

she endured, she lost the title of being a Wolf. Solid Snake comforts and lets her that she

is a Wolf. A being that is loyal, proud and independent as well as honorable. Especially

since she spared the life of Solid Snakes parter, Meryl. He also told her how Wolves are

noble animals, and that many cultures have positive regard for Wolves though language

and ideas. Such as how with the Yupik, the word for wolf is "Kegluneq", and how the

Aleuts revere them as honorable cousins. Solid Snake before Sniper Wolf died, told hershe would die as the proud Wolf that she is.

128

In the remake of this classic game in 2004, calledMetal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakesfor

the Nintendo Gamecube, several scenes were added. When Sniper Wolf dies, her wolf-

dog friends howl after her passing. And in the credits where real life locations of animals

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and nature are shown in Alaska, they added in Twin Snakes the scene of a wolf looking

at you and moves away.129

The Metal Gear franchise, beginning in 1987, has been a

successful series that is about to end its major story arc in 2007.

Princess Mononoke (In Japan, Mononoke Hime)

(left: San the Wolf Princess, right: Moro the Wolf Goddess) 2000Miramax

Princess Mononoke is a powerful film by Miyazaki Hayao which was released in Japan

in 1997, and in the U.S. in 1999. It is about a tribal villager Ashitaka in ancient Japan

who is attacked by a Boar God who is possessed by demons. After defeating it and

getting infected himself by the demon, he must figure why nature and its gods are being

taken over by demons. He also must find out how to cure himself before he dies.

This film shows the trials and tribulations of both the humans and nature. Both ultimately

must put their differences aside to stop the demons and restore peace to the land. The

films other protagonist San, who is a Wolf Princess (hence the films name). She was

raised by the Wolf Goddess Moro, who considers her a daughter.

The film takes much influence from Shinto mythology and confronts the issue head on

about how nature will cease to exist and so will all life if humans continue to destroy

nature.130

The X-Files

This legendary sci-fi series created by Chris Carter that had a run from 1993-2002 and it

had to do with agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett, and Monica Reyes

investigating and solving cases of the paranormal. Also they had to fight a global

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conspiracy which threatened the entire planet as well as the corruptive forces in the

governments of the world that use their people in vicious experiments.131

In 1999, they had an X-Files episode called Alpha. It was about man, Dr. Detweiler, who

obtained an evil spirit that would transform him into a Werewolf. Fox Mulder was

contacted by a Wolf activist to help stop the man. Mulder tells Scully in the episode thatthe activist, Karin Berquist knows much in the area about Wolves and Wolf behavior,

that she lived with wild canids and Wolves in the wilderness of five different continents.

When they meet Karin, she tells them that canids have a higher intelligence than humans

and that although they are smarter, that murder is something that is of human behavior

since it requires no intelligence.

Later in the episode Karin reveals to Scully that she has the deadly disease called lupus.

She tells her its ironic considering the latin name for the Gray Wolf is Cainus Lupus.

Karins love for Wolves is why she also protected the rare canine that was transported to

the U.S., but when she found out that it was an entity that took over Detweiler and madehim into a monster did she want to see him defeated. Karin sacrifices her life to defeat the

monster and save many innocent lives.

Although she didnt have time to express her feelings openly, she felt a connection to

Mulder of kinship and as a result, left a memento for him before the time of her

sacrifice.132

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(Wolverine running with the Wolves on a hunt for food) 2002 Marvel Comics

In 2001, the origin of Wolverine was finally revealed. Wolverine AKA James Howlett, is

a character from Marvel Comics. In particular, he is what is called a Mutant, an evolved

human that has extraordinary powers. Wolverine abilities make him like an animal, since

he has claws, heightened senses of smell and hearing, and super healing. He also had

amnesia due to experiments that were done to him for many years.

His origin centered around him being born to a upper class family in Canada. The

workers who did maintenance to his familys residence attacked and killed his dog and

soon his father. Forced to flee to another part of Canada after Wolverine defeated his

pets and fathers attackers (and after his mothers suicide), his closest friend Rose helps

him try to live a new life. Wolverine soon develops ties to the wilderness and spends time

with Wolves and even hunts with them. When old foes years later destroy the life he

worked so hard to build, he decides to leave humanity behind for many years and is seen

living with the Wolves once again. This is reminiscent of theJulie and the Wolves

Trilogyby Jean Craighead George where the character Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen,flees her village to live and learn from a pack of Wolves.

The graphic novel of Wolverine: Originwas released in 2002133

and is being republished

with extra material in October of this year.

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It is interesting to note that in the filmX-Men 2: X-Men United, Wolverine searches for

the base that performed the experiments and torture on him in Canada. In this search he

encounters a white wolf. It looks at him for a little bit and leaves. The camera not too

long after this shows a wolf in a diorama that is defending itself against two neanderthals

with clubs.134

It represents the oppressed having to defend itself from humans that hate

them, even that far back in time. In fact it is said that in real life, the early humans wipedout mammoths.

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Wolfs Rain

(from left to right: Hige, Kiba, Cheza, Tsume,Toboe) 2006 Bandai

In 2003 on Japanese television, the wonderful series called Wolfs Rainpremiered. It was

a series that took place in the future. A future where Wolves are extinct and the world is

on the verge of Armageddon. When the end of the world is near, the gates to Paradise

(Rakuen) open and only those worthy can enter it to survive. The catch is that only

Wolves can enter it.

There are only 4 Wolves known to be left on the planet: Kiba, the fearless leader who

was once raised by Native Americans, Tsume, a former leader of a gang that was

opposed to the Nobles (the current power structure that rules Earth), Hige, a teenage wolf

who has learned to adapt to humans, and Toboe, a kid wolf who loves both humans and

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Wolves and is learning about the harsh world that fears and hates his kind. These Wolves

also had to ability to make themselves appear as human in front of other Humans.

These last 4 Wolves on the planet had to make a challenging journey to enter Rakuen,

and survive the harsh journey that awaited them. Some survived, some did not, and the

series came to climatic finish.136

Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4 was released in January of 2005 for Gamecube in the U.S. and re-

released for the Playstation 2 in October of 2005. It was another great chapter in the

survival horror series created by Mikami Shinji. This game is about a U.S. Government

agent Leon Kennedy who must travel to a monster ridden village in Europe to rescue the

Presidents daughter. A survivor of the zombie ridden Raccoon City, he learns things are

more than meets the eye in this tale. Along the way he encounters a wolf that is caught in

a bear trap. At this point in the game, you have to option of freeing the wolf.

(Wolf caught in bear trap) 2005Gamespot and Capcom

If the player frees the wolf, the wolf runs off but returns later to help the player fight

against a huge monster that is out to kill you. This wolf is the lucky one to not be infected

by the parastic monsters that the village rulers created. The parasite infects everyone,

including Wolves on the country side and makes them transform into monsters under the

control of the village leaders.137

This is much like how humans infected Wolves with

mange.

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(The monster that the wolf if rescuedhelps you fight) 2005 Capcom

Its a great game that portrays the wolf in a positive manner.

Werewolf the Forsaken

(Werewolf the Forsaken Main Book Cover) 2005 WhiteWolf

In March of 2005, the long awaited non-direct sequel series to Werewolf the Apocalypse

was released. This series, Werewolf the Forsaken, created and directed by Ethan Skemp,is about how the world was created by Father Wolf, and while he was around, things

were in balance. However, Father Wolf grew weaker over time and was about to die. He

made a controversial decision in asking his progeny, wereWolves to destroy him.

His kin did what he asked, but many were shocked and horrified at what they did and

branded them traitors. These Werewolves became known as the Forsaken. Fast forward

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way Father Wolf intended. But they must face the constant threat of the Pure. The Pure

are Werewolves who still hunt the Forsaken for the crimes they believe the Forsaken

committed. The Pure are nothing short of racist, genocidal maniacs. And that isnt the

least of the Forsakens worries. Sinister spirits of unimaginable power that threaten both

sides are plotting the destruction of them all. The battle for survival and restoring things

to balance has just begun.

This not only is the second major series that highlighted wolf spirits in pop culture, but

the first to say that it was a Wolf god that created the world. Wolf spirits are predominant

in the series, since all the tribes of Werewolves are represented by wolf spirits. Even the

wolf from Norse mythology, Fenris, is once again back and a protagonist.138

Much like Werewolf the Apocalypse, Forsaken has a book calledBlood of the Wolf,

which was released in November of 2005.Blood of the Wolf, too talks about Wolf

biology, behavior and even tips for real life on how to safely explore the woods.139

The book Territories, which was released in April of 2006, focuses on various places thatare primary territories for the Forsaken. Under the topic of wilderness, it mentions the

conflict that has engulfed some places because of landowners, the USFWS and how the

wilderness suffers because of it. It talks about how landowners dont like dealing with the

USFWS, and how the USFWS heads will issue heinous orders that target denizens of the

wild. .140

This totally fits the model on how most ranchers in Wolf Territory dont like

dealing with the ineffective USFWS. It also fits on how most ranchers want all Wolves

dead on their land. Its also true how the heads of the USFWS in these areas and other

wildlife agencies issue murder orders on Wolves. The USFWS doesnt do much to solve

conflicts regarding Wolves and livestock, but just end up creating more and slaughter

wherever they go instead of using Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching.

Spawn and Manga Spawn

The legendary comic series Spawn, by Todd McFarlane, has to do with a former U.S.

Serviceman by the name of Al Simmons who was setup to die by his own government.

Reborn as a creature from hell, a Hellspawn, he finds out that death isnt the end to his

life.141

Fighting the forces of Hell, Heaven and others, the series is reaching new heights

as Heaven and Hell are about to wage the legendary final battle of Armageddon. Only

Spawn is the last hope to save the world and all life on it.142

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(The Wolf who rescues Spawn in Spawn 147) 2005 ToddMcFarlane Productions

In issue 147 that came out in 2005, Spawn has his memories and powers taken from him

by the evil Mammon. Wandering aimlessly, he nearly dies in Minnesota where he is

rescued by a mysterious family that appears to be of a Victorian sort. The family

mysteriously disappears after they warn Spawn that a big threat plans to kill them. What

he doesnt realize is that that family are Wolves that have the magical power to alter their

appearance as well as their surroundings. Spawn goes outside the shed he was found in,

and encounters the Wolves. Thinking they are the threat, he begins to do battle with

them. He had no idea that it isnt them that are the threat to the family but it is the

hunters. The hunters in the issue were a group of people that wanted to exterminate allWolves. Even one of the hunters even abused his wife. The hunters interrupt the fight and

Spawn attempts to protect them, yet one of the hunters shoots him. Spawn defeats the

hunters and the Wolves have vanished.

Spawn leaves the area to continue the journey to reclaim his memories, and the eldest

Wolf narrates the rest of the issue by saying that because of this big fight, no hunter or

human has returned to the area. She truly hopes that Spawn will recover his memories

and hopes he will survive that journey.143

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(Kurosawa meets Mangee for the first time) 2006Todd McFarlane Productions and Tokoro Juzo

In December of 2005, the series Spawn Mangaby Tokoro Juzo was finally released in

the United States. A series that the main protagonist, Kurosawa Ken, is another Spawn.

Kurosawa was a gang bodyguard in L.A., who was killed and reborn too as aHellspawn.

144In the second volume which was released in February of 2006, Kurosawa

travels to Black Mesa to learn about how to become more powerful and fight against his

creator, Malebogia. Here not only does he meet another Spawn by the name of Cheveyo,

but he meets a powerful friend of Cheveyos, a Wolfspawn by the name of Mangee. This

powerful creature is a Wolf that can transform into a humanoid Wolf. Mangee helps

Kurosawa in some major battles.145

It is interesting to note that Mangees name is a

derivative of the word Mange, the disease that was used to infect and murder many

Wolves. A disease that Wolves still infects Wolves this very day.146

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

In the fall of 2005, the film sequel to the smash hit gameFinal Fantasy VIIwas released.

Final Fantasy VII, was a game for the Sony Playstation which was about the hero Cloud

Strife, a former military officer. Cloud saves the Earth from being destroyed by the evil

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(Mei and Gabu relaxing in a field) 2006 Sedick

International

In December of 2005, the filmArashi no Yoruni was released. It was a film for all ages

based on the book series by Kimura Yuichi. The series and the film are about a goat

named Mei who meets Gabu, a Wolf, in a barn on the night of a thunderstorm. Wolves

and goats arent really friends, but Gabu and Meis friendship grows as they face

challenges and journeys in this excellent series.149

The series also had a successful game for the Nintendo DS which had a variety of

innovative mini-games, as well as great graphics and story based on the film. It also

boasted an impressive soundtrack. The books are also for sale online or through import

stores in single books or all six books.150

Okami

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(Amaterasu leaping into action)

2006 Capcom

Okami(the word for Wolf in Japanese) was released in April 2006 in Japan and was

released in the U.S. in September of 2006. Okamiis a game by Capcom that takes place

in ancient Japan. A long sealed evil has been released and now the forces of darkness are

taking over the land. As a result, it is up to the Sun Goddess, known as Amaterasu, must

save the land from evil and restore it to its original state.

Amaterasu decides to take the form of a white Wolf, to take on this evil. Characters,

weapons and locations are taken from Japanese culture and myth. Amaterasu in this form,

moves and acts like a Wolf. The graphics in this game are beautiful and the gameplay is

innovative since not only is it an action game, but Amaterasu has to paint objects,enemies, star constellations, and more to restore the world to its former glory.

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Blade the Series

The TV seriesBladewhich was released in the summer of 2006 on Spike TV, is based on

the films and comics that have the main character Blade. Blade is a half-vampire, half-

human who is on a mission to liberate the world from Vampires. In the 10th

Episode,

called Angels and Demons, the vampire friend of Blade, Krista, is forced by the man who

turned her unwillingly into a vampire by the name of Marcus Van Sciver, to see into his

past by making her ingest his blood.

She enters a state where she interacts with his tragic past. At one point in this journey,

she is lead by a Wolf to view how Marcus was transformed into a vampire. The Wolf

isnt portrayed as a monster at all. The Wolf is intelligent and calmly leads her to the part

of Marcus past where he was left for dead by a powerful vampire who killed his wife in

front of his very eyes. He is resurrected by Native American Vampires and Wolves are

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near these vampires as well. This represents the bond that Native Americans have with

Wolves.152

The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess

(Link the Wolf and his companion

Mida) 2006 Nintendo

The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princessby Nintendo will be released in the United

States in November of 2006. The Legend of Zelda series has been around since 1986 and

centers around the hero Link who must save the land Hyrule from evil.

In this latest installment, Link must once again save not just Hyrule but another

dimension as well. When traveling in this new dimension, he becomes a Wolf, and

develops the heightened senses that a Wolf has. The game will be released for the

Nintendo Gamecube and the soon to be released Wii system.153

THE FUTURE?

Although the future is something that cannot be determined easily, the struggle for

humans to finally accept Wolves and live with them peacefully is a future that will only

come with a mass consciousness to preserve them and treat them as they would treat

themselves, with love and respect. Wolves are hunted by hunters in many parts of the

world and their fur coats are sold on Ebay as well as other places. Humans in government

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agencies continue to oppress them, by collaring them weekly and murdering them in

livestock depredation issues, instead of using proven Non-Lethal Methods and Predator

Friendly Ranching Practices. Ranchers still hate and fear the Wolf and want them

slaughtered wholesale to protect their cattle for a human populace that is rife with over-

active consumers. And former conservationists who claim to support Wolves, sell them

out, like UK Wolf Trust and David Mech, to have them murdered, and even waste timeby attacking decent activists in the guise of conservation for the whole sake of wanting to

win. And some like the Sierra Club and Sinapu already support hunting of species, so

when the Wolf is ever delisted in the United States, they may be a target for conservation

groups to be destroyed. With the Wolves beset by many sides who think they know what

is best for them and continue to oppress and slaughter them, the future doesnt look

bright. But where there is possibility, that is what hope is for and that maybe one day,

humans can live peacefully with Wolves and all can be one. Until that time, activists and

even those who arent activists must fight for peace and ensure that this peace occurs.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Heart of the Wolf Organization is dedicated to the Wolves. A group dedicated to

educating the populace about Wolves though articles, and dedicated to producing

the latest action alerts to help the Wolves. In particular, the goal of Heart of the Wolf is to

get humans to live with Wolves peacefully.

For those who don't know much about Wolves, here is a FAQ that will explain what

Wolves are (beyond this article), such as various species and more:

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/WolfFAQ.htm

Here is a list of books that are out there that one should read about Wolves if they havefurther interest.

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/Books.htm

Here are some films of interest about Wolves as well.

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/Films.htm

The Wolves have many enemies, and they are listed here:

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/Murderers.htm

Information about Non Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching Practices which

can peacefully prevent livestock depredations by Wolves is here:

http://www.heartofthewolf.org/source.html

Here is the contact information for Ranching Companies and Organizations:


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