From Project Coyote and this really shows what goes on.
Cody Roberts, a #Wyoming resident who captured, tortured, and killed a yearling wolf, has received substantial payments totaling tens of thousands of dollars through trucking contracts with agencies such as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
Records from Wyoming’s financial transparency platform, WyOpen.gov, reveal that between 2020 and 2024, Roberts’ trucking company provided services to the Game and Fish Department on at least 12 occasions. Roberts also undertook work for the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The contracts with wildlife authorities have drawn understandable scrutiny. During this period, Roberts earned more than $43,000 from the Game and Fish Department (@wygameandfish).
Agency spokeswoman Breanna Ball confirmed to Cowboy State Daily the active contract with C Roberts Trucking LLC. However, Ball remained non-committal regarding the possibility of future contracts with Roberts, stating that decisions were yet to be determined.
The existing association between Roberts and the game agency raises concerns and questions about whether this relationship influenced the leniency shown toward Roberts, who was fined a mere $250 for his barbaric acts against the young wolf. This brings into question the thoroughness of the agency’s due diligence. How well acquainted were the wardens with Roberts, given his evident business ties with the department?
As we’ve previously shared, wildlife agencies have been captured by undemocratic and dangerous worldviews that don’t represent public values and interests. Instead, they cater to narrow special interest groups, i.e., animal agriculture and hunting—often with specific interests in killing wild carnivores, allowing people like Cody Roberts to inflict untold suffering upon sentient, family-oriented animals.
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