Wolves
Personal memory by kim waale
Early 1900's • Minnesota, USA
In Northwest Minnesota in the early 1900's my grandpa and his brother were walking through the woods and they came upon a wolf sleeping beneath a tree. They quietly turned around and went home for their guns. When they returned, the wolf was gone. They had intented to kill the wolf before it got their calves. By the time my grandpa told me the story 50 years later, he seemed to question the wisdom of his intention to kill the wolf because so much in the local ecosystem had changed--in 50 short years wolves had become scare.
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