John Dougherty’s story about the Mexican wolf program
left out important facts on the impact of documented wolf incidents
on our children and rural families, the psychological trauma, and
habituated wolves seeking out humans and human use areas
(HCN, 12/24/07). The Miller family had the
Durango pack documented at their home 21 times; where is that in
Dougherty’s biased report? Also his neighbor had the Durango pack
documented at their home seven times – that is 28 times total. Do
you think there is something wrong with these wolves that lack wild
characteristics and put our children in harm’s way? Then Dougherty
stated I was a “rabid” opponent of the wolf. I never stated this,
this is his own conjecture as were other statements he wrote that I
purportedly said. Apparently you failed to edit this extremely
biased, one-sided piece of work that is totally against the people
and children of this county, and hopefully one day you will know
the true facts. You have no compassion for the safety of our
children, and I hope you got your bag of gold.
Jess
Carey
Catron County Wolf Interaction
Investigator
Reserve, New Mexico
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Uh, no bag of gold here ….
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