Idaho’s Governor Butch Otter, along with U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and U.S. Congressmen Mike Simpson and Walt Minnick, sent a letter off to President Barack Obama asking him to speed up the process and allow for the posting of the Final Rule that would remove the gray wolf from federal protection and place management of the animal in the hands of the state. You can read that letter here.
Not that common sense ever got in the way of a good environmental obstructionist lawsuit but one would think that with the Idaho governor and all four Congressional delegates on board with seeking federal delisting of the wolf, President Obama and his administration would catch on!
Don’t hold your breath! There’s still a lot of campaign repayments to be made and I see no reason why this action will not be part of that process.
Perhaps Obama will find a good tax dodger to head up the wolf delisting process.
Tom Remington
