Editor’s Note: On May 16, 2010, the Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, et. al., sponsored a gathering in Bozeman, Montana in which interested people could hear retired wildlife biologist and former employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jim Beers, speak on the illegal activities involved with wolf introduction in the Greater Yellowstone Area.
Mr. Beers was asked a question about fraudulent science following that meeting. Below is the question and his response.

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Q: After the following meeting I was asked about “fraudulent science”. I answered as follows:

A. Mammals get bigger as you go North and smaller as you go south to the Equator: the reason being that a large version of the same animal is generally more suited to surviving cold winters and a small version of the
same animal is generally more suited to surviving hot periods annually. Now wolves and white-tailed deer occur in North America from the Yukon to Mexico. While hunters go to far Northern Saskatchewan to shoot very large white-tails, the tiny little Key Deer (Florida white-tails that breed successfully with all other white-tail deer but just happen to live in a very hot climate AND to have evolved in very inferior food availability circumstances) is an Endangered SPECIES.

Before the ESA [Endangered Species Act], biologists would argue endlessly about whether the “Eastern” or the “Adirondack” or the “Great Lakes”, etc. whitetails were subspecies or races or populations. Post – ESA when such distinctions became extremely important to biology professors, bureaucrat commissars, environmental radicals and others hoping to profit from “Listing” and all it generated; such possible interpretations carried great importance and guided the way laws and regulations were written and the way Conventions and Treaties were drafted.

So today when we want to “reintroduce” Key deer we can’t capture some whitetails in Kansas or Vermont and plop them down on some Florida Key because they wouldn’t “belong” there (whatever that is supposed to mean). However, these same government scientists and biology “perfessers” and animal rights radicals like DOW can pine away about the need to “reintroduce” wolves into Yellowstone (et al) and go clear to the Northwest Territories and capture some wolves and then unceremoniously dump them into the Northwest. Then threaten anyone that tries to defend their lives, the lives of their families or neighbors, or their property from livestock to dogs to their public ownership and use of big game animals, and the very economic life of their rural communities with imprisonment and fines if they harm said wolves. Thus is it “unscientific” and “illegal” to move Key deer to Indiana while being perfectly “scientific” and “legal” to move Northern Canadian wolves to Wyoming. Hello, is anyone in there?

This is not “science” it is tyranny of the highest order. Such “science” is merely “play-dough” in the hands of despots and their camp followers.

Jim Beers

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