It has become excuse du jour as to why environmentalists don’t want wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains removed from federal protection of the Endangered Species Act. I suppose it matters not in that their handpicked activist judge will simply rule according to the wishes of the plaintiffs by merely inserting the fabricated excuse of the day into the ruling.
An Environmental Impact Statement in 1994 compiled by scientists and approved by the federal and state governments stated that 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs would sustain a wolf population. Soon the excuse became that “scientists” didn’t believe that was enough. It’s never enough now is it?
Then it became the excuse that wolf management plans that included hunting would irresponsibly wipe out wolf packs, soon followed by one judge’s creation of the need for genetic connectivity, in other words wolves interbreeding between sub populations.
Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is once again trying turn management of the wolves back over to the states and already I am beginning to read of what could perhaps be the next excuse du jour. The Missoulian is running a piece today that gives us that hint.
“Wolf recovery has been successful, but that can be reversed very quickly,” said Louisa Willcox, senior wildlife advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The population numbers bounce around a lot. You can have a big down-bounce. If you manage for the minimum, kill 500 in Idaho, and then you have a disease year, it makes it hard to crawl out of that hole.”
We now have what appears to be the next excuse. Wolf advocates are beginning their public relations campaign to convince the people that wolf populations fluctuate so wildly that unless we have at least a few thousand wolves, we will never have sustainability.
My guess is that as the wolf wackos prepare their next lawsuit, they will prime the judge of their choosing to let him know that the feds cannot prove how many wolves there are and therefore THEIR handpicked scientists say that because of uncontrollable huge fluctuations in wolf populations, the wolf is still at risk and therefore should not be removed from protection. In other words, the wolf will never be removed because it has become a very powerful tool for the environmentalists to control the people.
Tom Remington
