Letter: Stop waging war on native carnivores

In the June 3 Salt Lake Tribune article, “A gray wolf is in Utah for the first time in years. The state is setting traps,” Leann Hunting, director of the Animal Industry Division of the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, is quoted as saying, “If we didn’t eradicate the predators … if we didn’t do what we can to level out the playing field, it would completely dissolve our wildlife and livestock population.”It’s hard to imagine a more poorly