March 14, 2026
Dear editor:
I was a puzzled by Mark Heinz' piece titled “Wyoming Crow Hunters Can Blast All They Want, But Nobody Eats The Birds.”
That’s because a better title is: “Elderly man (85) shoots crows for fun. Isn’t that cute?”
Not really.
It unlikely to be effective pest control.
Crows are native wildlife. They are intelligent, inquisitive, ingenious birds. They fill an ecological niche.
Shooting animals for fun and target practice is several things. But hunting it’s not.
Instead, it is part of a spectrum of behavior all too often tolerated in our state.
Your guest columnist, Rod Miller, did us a favor when he proposed one final item - #11 – for Wyoming’s Code of the West.
People might check it out.
Sincerely,
Donal O’Toole, Laramie
