This is cool! Reading a brief article in the Oregonian, I came across a comment made by a wolf advocate at the Oregon meeting of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the delisting of the gray wolf. Here’s what the commenter said.
Josh Laughlin, director of the 700-member Cascadia Wildlands Project, based in Eugene, said if the species is delisted and many wolves in Idaho are killed, efforts at wolf recovery in Oregon and Washington would be set back. “Right now is a historic opportunity to ensure recovery occurs in Oregon,” he said. “We have a moral and ecological obligation to do so.”
This is what Tom Remington (me), member of the citizenry of the United States, whose numbers range well into the multi-millions, had to say about that comment.
Excuse me! We? We have a moral obligation? I don’t think so. If there are any morals to this discussion, we have a moral and economical obligation to ensure that ranchers and their businesses are protected. We have a moral obligation to protect the decades of hard work and money gone into managing the existing wildlife in the regions. We have a moral obligation to look out for the best interest of man, the wolf is at most, secondary.
Please!
*Note* It must be more effective to include how many members belong to an organization somebody represents. This is why I listed my membership as being in the millions.
Tom Remington
