Apparently it matters not who sits in the Department of Interior’s Chair, North Dakota U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan has sought out Obama appointee to head the Interior Department, Colorado Sen. Ken Salazaar, to consider letting volunteer hunters thin a bulging elk population in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
In July, 2007, Dorgan approached Interior Secretary Kempthorne with the same issue but of late, the Park Service is opting to use volunteers to kill the elk and then the meat will be donated to the hungry. Dorgan says it’s crazy to spend money to thin the herd when it’s not necessary.
“Why on earth would the federal government spend money to thin the elk herd when qualified volunteers would accomplish the same result without spending a dime?” Dorgan said in a press release.
According to the Grand Forks Herald, Salazaar said he would look into it.
Tom Remington
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