05/23/2026
Dear New York Post,
The most dangerous creature ever to walk this Earth, to their own kind, to other species, and to the living world itself, are human beings. Do better.
In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt published Hunting the Grizzly and Other Sketches and declared the wolf “the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.” He was not alone in thinking so. From the Puritan wolf bounties of 1630 to the U.S. government’s extermination campaigns that killed more than 24,000 wolves by 1942, words such as “beast” and “dangerous” have never been innocent descriptors; they have long served as linguistic justifications for violence and eradication.
Gray wolves are among the most socially complex and ecologically vital animals on this continent. BEY03F, the first wolf seen in Sequoia National Park in more than a century, deserved that context.
She is three years old, born in 2023 into the Beyem Seyo pack in Plumas County. After lethal removals against several of her packmates in 2025 amid conflicts tied to industrial animal agriculture, she traveled alone across the Central Valley and over the Sierra Nevada, crossing terrain above 13,000 feet. Wildlife officials believe she is searching for a mate and territory.
Humanity has razed forests, poisoned rivers, filled oceans with plastic, industrialized suffering on an unimaginable scale, and destabilized the climate itself. A lone wolf crosses a mountain range and your editors call her a “dangerous beast.”
Wolves simply try to live. And they have every right to be here.
The California Wolf Foundation wrote that BEY03F’s journey “tells a bigger story about resilience, connectivity, and the future of wolves in our state.” She is not a threat. She is evidence that the living world still struggles toward recovery despite everything done to it.
