Wolves

How amazing this Twenty First Century, with this thing called “The Internet”, instant communication. For a person with a Thirteenth Century Mind Set, it is truly an amazing thing. Everyone has a “Mind Set”, this being your Teachings as a Child. Being honest with ones’ self, all of the things thought to you as a Child where you were not allowed to question, even within your Being you knew there had to other options, other concepts, they were forced upon you and linger throughout your life, causing a “Mind Set”. Yet adults tell you NO, IT IS THIS WAY, you are WRONG. How sad these Children of the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries that are not allowed to question Concepts and Opinions of the adults that were given the Privilege and Honor to Educate the Child. When in Actually and Reality, Opinions and Concepts are neither right nor wrong, just one Individuals’ out look.

This you may be thinking, “What does that have to do with Wolves?” This, so as, to let the Reader know, I am not of a Mind Set of this Century, I was allowed to Question and form my own Opinions and Concepts as a Child, with guidance, not firm discipline as to Conceptual Rights and Wrongs.

It may be many of you read a thing on the Internet today called, “Save the ‘Twilight’ Wolves”. The thinking of the Society of today, here is a very important Fact of Nature, an important question, an important out-come, and yet the writer equates it to and interfaces it with Fiction.
The State of Washington is “debating”, should the Wolves that are returning to the Washington’s Olympic Peninsula be exterminated. In the 1800s an extensive Wolf extermination campaign eliminated the species in that area and many other areas in what is known today as The United States of America. Now after more than a hundred years the Wolves are slowly returning to this area. Have we as the Human Race not learned past Lessons? The pray Animals cause a Balance within Nature, keeping in check, the over population of other creatures that can be very destructive, due to greater numbers thus destroying their habitat. In turn also having an effect upon us Human Beings.

As a Boy in my Mountains of northern New York State, as it is known today, there were no Wolves. This being due to the fact the Euro-Americans had exterminated them prior to the Twentieth Century, out of Fear. As the Europeans moved into our Lands they brought with them the fantasies and fears of the Wolf with them. Their Stories of Werewolves, a fiction, wrought out of fear and fabrication of some kind of Mythical man eating Animal.

I will agree Wolves will attack and consume domesticated Animals, yet we as Human Beings have the intelligence to safeguard our domesticated Animals. This occurs when we over hunt and kill the Animals that are the Natural Pray of the Wolf, hunting no longer out of NEED, but for SPORT. We as Human Beings upon this Earth are liken to a virus, consuming all that Nature has placed here for all of its inhabitants. We as Human Being in this Twenty First Century and the prior Century consume our Natural resources, not out of NEED but out of WANT and GREED.

As I read the comments following this Internet posting I was pleased to read, out of the twenty one comments, eighteen were for allowing the Wolf to reenter its’ Natural Habitat. Two stated they should be “relocated”. How sad for them. When Governments come across something that they perceive as an Obstacle or Fears, just relocate them, as they did with the Original Peoples of this Land. How sad that the Peoples of this Country have Learned nothing in the past six hundred years. One comment suggested allowing the Wolves but eliminate the Bear. Damn!

I am sure the majority of the People reading this article on the Internet will be distracted from the Real Issue, the Wolves, and focus on the advertisement for a fictional Movie called “New Moon”. This may be an interesting exciting movie, yet it is fictional, for entertainment, or will it allow the Old Fears be brought forward and the Wolves be eliminated due to the old Fears?

We as Human Beings no longer see ourselves as “a Part of Nature”, we see ourselves “as above it”, “superior”, when in Actuality, how can Man Survive without looking out for all of the entities of this Earth? Honor their existence, bring this Earth back to its’ Natural Self with all of its’ Beings intact.

Wolves, a necessity for the survival of all Beings. Think about it!

White Crow January 2010