Fiery advocate against wolves connects with a small farm town
ASHTON, IDAHO
The West’s traveling anti-wolf evangelist, Ron Gillett, brought his crusade to this rural community a couple of weeks ago.
It’s a good venue for him. Hundred-pound wolves prowl among people and livestock and elk around here, on the western border of Yellowstone National Park, stirring up waves of fear and anger.
In mid-April, naked dirt showed in the farm fields, and the higher-elevation public lands held the ruins of winter in melting snowdrifts. The town of Ashton is nothing fancy, just a few blocks of small businesses and a scatter of houses around a stand of grain elevators.
About 120 of the locals turned out to see Gillett on a chilly Thursday evening. They parked mud-splattered pickups and SUVs at the Ashton Community Center and along side streets, by the Log Cabin Motel and the Zion Lutheran Church. As they filed into the metal-roofed, brick-walled community center, the sky glowed with sunset. A nearly full moon was rising, and the snowy tips of the Tetons brightened the horizon. The sound of cattle bawling came from a nearby feedlot.
1 comment:
Ron Gillett is a psychopath and a liar. He makes things up about wolves to further his obsessive hatred, he is a truly sick person and has attacked wildlife advocates as well as stirring up fear in communities which previously didn't mind wolves.
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