Utah Natural Resources director compares wolf to ‘T. rex’

Wolves are making a comeback in Utah, having been spotted, trapped, and even in one instance, killed in the state, and the threat to livestock and wildlife could be severe, according to the state’s director of natural resources. Department of Natural Resources Director Michael Styler told a legislative committee Tuesday that the return of the wolves is comparable to “the resurrection of the T. rex and turning him loose on the landscape.” “They’re devastating the wildlife population and they’re also devastating to the livestock population,” he said. “The goal of our anti-grazing, anti-hunting friends, if you can call them friends, is to end grazing and to end hunting, and they have got the perfect biological weapon and that weapon is wolves because they destroy wildlife and they destroy livestock.” Styler said wolves have been seen in the Chalk Creek area in northeastern Utah. He said one wolf was caught in a coyote trap and died, and another was trapped alive and sent back to Yellowstone...more