Kill order for roaming Mexican wolf was wrong

A sad event occurred during the week celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mexican wolf reintroduction; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service quietly issued a kill order for wolf AM 1296, otherwise known as "Rusty," the name the schoolkids gave him. He was killed in early April.The reason given is repeated cattle depredation on "public and/or private land." Also present on this land were cattle, not killed by wolves, left to rot. That almost seems like, let's be real, baiting.Today's ranchers are