The caribou are going extinct.
Fire up the chopper, load the rifle,
Shoot the wolves!
Never mind the caribou have no cover of old-growth canopy. Or, that the old-growth tree is home to lichen to which the caribou have taken a liken’.
Naw! Shoot the wolves!
Ignore that we’ve hacked and slashed the caribou habitat, ransacked and left it devastated, obliterated it’s a fact they’re too easy to track, an exposed attack.
Shoot the wolves!
Let’s be honest, this is on us, the onus, we need no editor to more clearly articulate who is the caribou’s apex predator.
No worries… we can just shoot the wolves!
We will be asked, if we should do all we can to protect a species from certain extinction? What’s the distinction? Our intervention came too late, so we will just keep shooting wolves?
8 out of 10 should depress the population enough they say!
When all else fails just blast away.
Blast, blast, blast away…
Bang, bang, bang away until we have felt we’ve done something useful.
Shoot the wolves until the caribou are safe!
Nice work team! Are we really so greedy, that rather than restrain our desire to liquidate every last “natural resource” lazily left here for human exploitation, that our answer is to shoot the wolves?
What will we shoot when wolf populations collapse and there are no more wolves to blame?
Evidence based? Please don’t hand pick your evidence to show me this is the best science when we’ve left human restraint off the table. It’s beckoning. This, the time of our reckoning.
This poem is dedicated to my son Silas Wolf Olsen, my wife Emily who is moved by the wolf, C.H., and my beautiful extended family.
The next legislative session begins in October and I will be expanding my effort on this issue from this artistic and emotive response to the culling of wolves to a policy and legislative one. More to come on this issue!
Right on Adam! I hope Silas enjoys the poem! I am sure that he will love you play on words and the points you made and especially because his dad is working toward helping people and governments see what is wrong with how we have been doing things. Thank you for this! Love it!
Work on!
Thank you Mr Olsen for understanding and speaking out about the wolf cull. It is unfathomable that the BC government is going through with this. Madness!
The report that came back from the public consultation had the majority of the people against predator management and for habitat protection.
Thank you, Adam Olsen, for expressing what so many people are agonizing over! It is a fact, that Wolves are beneficial to their habitat, and that culling, killing one species to promote another is both inefficient, and cruel.
The Cariboo cannot grow, or groom a habitat that is slashed by logging, building of dangerous (to the Cariboo) roads.
We need to protect them from Humans, so they can grow stronger.
We should stop reading “Little Red Riding Hood” to our children and grand-children.
Thank you Adam, and wonderful poem. The wolf and cougar cull that is occurring in BC is disgraceful. We have to stop this but unfortunately Andrew Weaver came out in full support of the wolf cull in 2015. Perhaps he might revisit this now that over 700 wolves have been killed and industry continues to carve up the last critical caribou habitat and the only solution that Horgan can come up with is to start killing many more wolves over the next two years to the tune of 3 million tax dollars.
Ian McAllister
Thank you so much. Can we get Alberta’s MLA’S to listen too.
The culling needs to stop. All species are needed to ensure biodiversity and ecological balance. We need the Governments of this country to learn the science.
Thank you again.
WOW! This is so powerful. Thank you for your voice. Some of us in the interior are working really hard on protecting old growth and caribou habitat. If people are interested please check out valhalla wilderness society http://www.vws.org and Conservation North conservationnorth.org
So true. So moving. Thank you.
Killing one species to benefit another is disgraceful. As was said, why can’t we just stop chopping down their habitat and let them recover naturally?
Having being employed part time hunting guide I can assure you that the guide outfitters are a force behind the shooting of the wolves. They promote to all Hunters that they take out to get A WOLF TAG as they are a nuisance to them ,and shoot any they see. More animals for them.
We need to identify specific areas of extreme value to the caribou and ban winter motorised sled access in specific high value spots to protect caribou from power-assisted wolf predation.
Shoot the STUPID HUMANS!! STOP LOGGING!!! Save OUR EARTH! and the Creatures that call it HOME!
Please Mr. Olsen, B.C. can not lose the iconic caribou, lose the wolves, lose the cougars, lose the bears and lose the old growth forests!!! This is madness! This fight is all about greedy powerful commercial organizations like the heli-ski companies, snowmobile companies and clubs, ranchers and forest and mining companies that want to rid the landscape of wildlife and the scant protections in place. Like California we too are close to having an iconic species found only on t-shirts, posters and on the Canadian quarter! Shame on us in 2019! What a legacy to pass on to the next generation!
Tthe poem so true never look into why just kill. These animals are endangered and they are a big patrt ofthe eco system. These animals are gorgeous they are family orientated and they look after their families. We have to stop thismass slaughter all the time and start finding out why things are as they are.
Perfectly expressed, Adam!
Thank you for using your voice to speak the truth so powerfully.