They’ll be shooting gray wolves in Idaho this weekend. Citizens there eagerly purchased 14,500 tags to kill a quota of just over 200 wolves. The hunters know all about the wolf’s overpopulation, and they also know they might never get a chance like this again. Environmental groups and their $600-an-hour lawyers have been working around the clock to prevent this and all future hunts.

To add insult to their injury, the eager hunters in the West are not just battling the environmentalists. They have also been paying their legal bills. As taxpayers, they must under the Endangered Species Act pay for the environmentalists’ effort to infest their lands and mountains with as many as 5,000 wolves — several times the number there today.