Letter to the Editor: Opposing coyote killing contests

Dear Editor,

We stood peacefully and respectfully in freezing cold weather for the third year in a row, protesting with signs outside Buddha Bob's bar on February 25, 2023. This bar hosted the "check-in" of a coyote killing contest organized by a private group called 'Wyoming Best of the Best.' We held red roses in our hands and wore white shirts with (fake) blood stains in honor of the animals who had been brutally killed, their bodies brought to the bar's parking lot to be weighed and counted. We weren't protesting regulated hunting, nor were we taking issue with the killing of coyotes in ca...