Our hungry children need more than wolf

To the editor:

We get letters every day asking for some kind of donation to help feed the children who we know are very much in need of a lot of the necessities of life. This includes some sort of nourishment or clothes, and a lot of those children would appreciate a warm place to sleep.

At the same time a lot of our governing bodies, including the Fish and Wildlife Service, spend millions of dollars to import wolves from Canada where the wolves are not wanted in the first place. Our government pampers the predators and gives them a better chance of survival than our own children all over this nation. The children should be given first thought by everyone.

But the Fish and Wildlife Service keeps telling us of the endangered species that they are trying to protect, with radio collars and following the predators all day by helicopter. What is the real cost of all this? Now this is very silly and doesn't make ten cents worth of sense to a lot of taxpayers and even less sense to a hungry child.

This wasted money could be put to better use feeding and clothing a lot of our children or other folks who are badly in need of financial aid, or the homeless who need a place to sleep and something to eat.

Our government departments waste money on such foolhardy programs like the Fish and Wildlife Service pretending to help the predators when in truth they are only helping themselves.

We have a large amount of our own population that is an endangered species -- our under-privileged people. Let's feed a lot of children who have not enough to eat or a place to sleep.

by Linc France
Columbia Falls, MT
Aug. 26, 1996