It wasn’t even 2 months into Barack Obama’s presidency when he declared, “Today, I’ve signed a memorandum that will help restore the scientific process to its rightful place at the heart of the Endangered Species Act, a process undermined by past administrations,”. The U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance (USSA) today is beginning to think Obama’s “restored” scientific process has conjured up a fictitious new specie of wolf.

The USSA was one of the organizations spending valuable money attempting to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to once again make an attempt to delist wolves in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Their hopes heightened when they learned the Feds planned to publish a Final Rule declaring the wolf recovered, only to be crushed to hear in the same press release that a new specie of wolf was discovered.

Bill Horn, Director of Federal Affairs for USSA, writes:

Consultations with wolf experts persuades us that the convenient discovery of this new “species” is scientifically bogus. Finding this new species of wolves is like declaring that different races of humans are different species. We’re all Homo sapiens and the wolves in the Great Lakes (and adjacent Canada) are Canis lupus.

Last September I warned that wolves would never be delisted in the Western Great Lakes area. What’s laughable in many respects is that I figured it would just end up back in court with still no solution to a problem that has no solution. It may still end up in court but for now the Feds have found a new and mysterious wolf that should tie this up for at least 10 more years.

To the USSA and all the other sportsman’s groups, I say, put your money away and spend it on something that stands a snowball’s chance in hell of doing something good for outdoor sportsmen.

Tom Remington

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