The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took one more step toward altering its science to fit the will of the courts by devising a draft plan geared at convincing states, wolf lovers and judges who draft their own science, that the USFWS will guarantee wolf “connectivity” between the three major wolf populations of the Northern Rocky Mountains.
Make no doubt about it. It is happening right now. The courts are dictating to the USFWS and wildlife biologists how it will manage and protect wolves. The courts are dictating the parameters, creating their own “science” and forcing the USFWS to now use “voodoo” science in managing wolves. Voodoo science is what State Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, called it in an article in the Casper Star-Tribune.
“That word ‘funding’ in there looks like big trouble to me,” Brown said. “To be honest with you, I don’t know what I’m going to do on this thing. Some of this seems to me like voodoo science.”
The Draft Plan, found on the USFWS website, is not going to set well with anybody, from what I can tell. I can’t believe the states will go along with funding of such a plan. It would be a waste of money to do so, as many already believe has taken place. Nothing ever promised the states since wolf reintroduction has been carried out, while taxpayers continue to dump exorbitant amounts of money into a project that has no ending, because wolf lovers will never cease with lawsuits until every state in the Union has wolves. Their job is made much easier when they have judges like Donald Molloy and Paul Friedman on their side.
The draft says that monitoring of the wolves will take place and a collection of data will result in tracking genetic interbreeding of the three population groups of wolves. This “genetic exchange” is something that Judge Molloy appeared to make up in his ruling that placed the wolf back on the Endangered Species Act list.
If this “genetic exchange” or “connectivity” doesn’t take place naturally, then it will be done by “human-assisted techniques”.
The same draft plan seems to leave Wyoming out of the mix, assuming that unless Wyoming can come up with a wolf management plan that Judge Molloy likes, they will not be included in the next attempt by USFWS to delist the wolf.
Tom Remington
