Wolf pack that killed cattle taken out by sharpshooters

Sharpshooters taking aim from a helicopter shot dead six gray wolves this week, wrapping up Washington state’s strategy of killing off the pack because it had become accustomed to eating cattle.

“It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made both professionally as well as personally,” Phil Anderson, director of Washington’s Department of Fish & Wildlife, told NBC station KING5.com on Thursday after the last wolf, the alpha male, was shot dead. “Going out and killing wildlife is not what this agency is all about.”