It's worth remebering this last phrase "In that simple fashion does the man who outwitted the cleverest of animal criminals tell his story."<p>whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous short piece from A Sand County Almanac, Thinking Like a Mountain:<p><a href="https://ia600707.us.archive.org/6/items/ThinkingLikeAMountain/Thinking%20Like%20a%20Mountain.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://ia600707.us.archive.org/6/items/ThinkingLikeAMountai...</a>
Related article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf</a>
This was featured in This American Life 581, which is a nice episode<p><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-marching-in" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-ma...</a>
Farmers in South Dakota were so poor they couldn't afford to trap/stop the wolf, so they enlisted the federal government to do it. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf</a>