“The matriarch 1090F is going down on the 15th of September." Antonis K. posted that on Facebook, before vowing to bring four friends to Wyoming to "harvest" her. A second hunter said he'd take the shot too. Wildlife advocates tried offering $10,000 to expose whoever did it, then had to pull the offer, Wyoming law protects hunters' identities. 1090F is the matriarch of Mollie's Pack, Yellowstone's oldest wolf family, known for generations as skilled bison hunters, tracing back to the original 1995-96 reintroduction. At 12 years old, she's almost one hunting season away from becoming the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming. Her pack left Yellowstone's protection this summer, denning right outside the boundary where hunting is legal. People begged Wyoming's Game and Fish Commission to close just that one zone, just for this pack, just for this season. One official got 1,100 emails in five minutes. "She is dangerously close to being the oldest wolf ever recorded in Wyoming," he admitted. They said no anyway. On September 15th, the exact day hunters targeted her, most of the pack was confirmed back inside Yellowstone's boundary. But there are new pups this season, now finally old enough to travel with the pack, and that makes everyone more vulnerable. Yellowstone wolves grow up used to tourists and vehicles, not guns. They haven't learned to fear humans the way wolves outside the park have. The hunt remains open, and wolves don't adhere to boundaries. There's already talk of stripping wolves of federal protection entirely. Trump signed an executive order giving his administration 90 days to decide whether to move forward. That wouldn't touch wolves inside Yellowstone's boundary, protection there doesn't come from this law anyway. But wild animals don't know where that boundary is. I'll keep you posted as this develops. But this is what you can do today. Tell Wyoming to close Wolf Hunt Area 1 before the September 22nd meeting.🐺 Link in first reply👇 #DemsUnited

On September 4th, Trump signed an executive order aimed at stripping federal protection from gray wolves nationwide. A wolf named BEY03F just proved why that protection matters, the first wolf to walk into Sequoia National Park in over a century, entirely on her own, alive today because of that protection. Wolves hold entire ecosystems together. When wolves returned to Yellowstone, elk stopped overgrazing the land, trees came back, rivers changed course, whole species of birds and beavers returned. There's a bill already moving through Congress to make this permanent, H.R. 845. It already passed the House. It's in the Senate right now. Tell your senators to vote no. Link below.👇 #DemsUnited xitter.cf/trail_cams/status/2097…