Aside from intentional, direct killing from humans, wolves, like many mammals, suffer from unintentional, direct killing and injury, habitat loss, intraspecific competition, disease, and starvation from lack of prey (Mech 1970, 1977; Keith 1983; Fuller 1989; Mladenoff et al. 1995). Effects on the landscape and in the surrounding environment, and therefore to potential habitat, can include logging; barriers and obstacles such as roads, railways, trails, and fences; mining pits and quarries; climate change; and fires (Vors et al. 2007; Wilcove and Wikelski 2008). This is a daunting list of candidates for treatment, especially considering the limited budgets conservation organizations operate on coupled with the uncertainty of success. Although each type of anthropogenic activity listed above poses a threat to wolves and other species, underscoring the importance of laws and policies addressing the entire suite of risks, direct intentional killing without cause is viewed by the author as a particularly vicious activity for humans to engage in, and one that is antithetical to the most elementary of concerns for environmental protection and care. The magnitude of this viciousness is compounded, moreover, through the offering and acceptance of an opportunity to hunt members of a sentient species less than a year after having been essentially declared “safe.”