Never made a stamp before. Hm.
Anyway, I'm sure those of you that know me at least a little are rolling your eyes and saying "Oh, there goes Val with his dog obscession."
Well, bite me, okay?!
Wolves are beautiful animals, and yet they had been hunted to the brink of extinction. Humans seem to think they have the right to decide whether or not they're a nuisance and need to be killed off;
Most forms of poisons have been banned, as far as I know, but that doesnt stop trapping and hunting by over-zealous livestock farmers. "For the good of livestock" my ass. I'm sorry, I mean I can understand one. I dont LIKE it, no, but you have to protect your job and stay alive, I suppose. But that obviously ISNT all you're doing, otherwise they wouldnt have been hunted to near-extinction. And if it is, maybe consider not herding livestock there, and going somewhere without that kind of predator around in such staggering numbers (which wouldnt be possible after it becomes a threatened species anyway)?

"Oh, I know, lets let my cattle graze under an erupting volcano! Wait, what the hell? My cow is on fire! The nerve of that volcano, what does it think it's doing?! Let's shoot it!" I don't see the thought process there. If you choose to do that kind of thing in that area, you have no right to whine that you have to go and buy more sheep or whatever. They complain about 'surplus killing', but in nature that doesnt happen very often. It's because you penned all of your livestock up in one place, that's not natural. So yeah, you're gonna have more than one dead sheepy.
Today I was reading about how it's been legalized in some places for people to gun down the wolf population from a freaking helicoptor. That pissed me off to no end, thus this stamp.
Wolves are among the most gorgeous creatures on the face of the planet, and we ought to be doing what we can to preserve them for future generations to endure.
I apologize for the angry rant.

Feel free to use the stamp if you wish, in fact I encourage it! Lemme know if you do; I'd love to see how many people support the cause. ^.^

As a disclamer I understand a degree of population control is inevitably neccesary, especially in cases of introduced species. My point was that in those situations where one species survival or convienience is weighed against another, if those kind of actions are taken it should be done so neither species faces extinction.