Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal isn’t what you’d call jumping up and down for joy over the tactics employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get the gray wolf delisted before inauguration day comes in January.

“Based upon non-binding, cursory legal analysis of the state’s wolf management scheme in a preliminary injunction issued by (judge Molloy), the Service now has reverted back to a politically driven decision-making process in an attempt to promulgate a new delisting rule before the close of the current administration.”

Ed Bangs, USFWS wolf recovery director, reveals his colors in basically telling Wyoming he doesn’t really care what the governor does.

“I think Wyoming needs to do whatever it thinks is in its best interests. We’ll just take those comments into consideration as we look forward to trying to make a final decision,” Bangs said. He added: “At this point going back and forth tit-for-tat is not where we’re at in this thing; we’re going to do what we think we need to do.”

What does Bangs expect? He and his corrupt Service approved Wyoming’s Wolf Management Plan. Whether people agree or disagree with Wyoming’s plan is immaterial to Freudenthal’s argument. Bangs approved the plan, one would think he thought it through enough to believe it would withstand the scrutiny of a lawsuit. There was nobody in the U.S. who didn’t know there would be lawsuits.

If Bangs approved the plan, isn’t that supposed to be based on science? Why is it now no good?

Now Bangs expects Wyoming to come up with another state approved plan in hopes that this will satisfy a political activist judge. With a new administration coming in, I can guarantee this effort to delist won’t get any easier.

Tom Remington

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