Ronan Donovan Instagram – Link in bio // Montana’s wildlife heritage is under serious threat at this time as a result of a series of bills being pushed through the Republican lead legislature. These bills relate to reducing Montana’s wolf population by 80%, legalizing, enacting a wolf bounty, wolf neck snares, blocking bison from future restoration, and more. There’s a link in my bio to a series of resources from press releases and how to contact Montana’s Governor and state politicians. These bills come from small private special interest groups in Montana and are not based upon science-based wildlife management. Hunters, anglers, wildlife watchers and citizens of Montana should be deeply concerned. ⁣ ⁣ “Already they’re being marginalized, diminished in number, deprived of habitat, leached of genetic vigor, constricted within insufficient refugia, extirpated here, extirpated there. One aspect of that trend is that they’re becoming disconnected from Homo sapiens and⁣ we’re becoming disconnected from them. Throughout our history as a species — tens of millennia, hundreds of millennia, going on two million years — we have tolerated the dangerous, problematic presence of big predators, finding roles for them within our emotional universe.” — David Quammen, Monster of God, 2003⁣ ⁣ “I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”⁣ — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949⁣ ⁣ As self-centered modern humans, indeed we are still young. ⁣ ⁣ Montana, USA