While visiting with my brother this summer, he was forever waving one hand in front of my face and saying, “Watch the hand! Watch the hand!”, intending to convey that while the other hand was behind his back doing something sinister, all my attention was on his waving hand.

Government politicians, along with slimy judges and corrupt fish and game departments are constantly waving a hand in front of your face while preparing the other hand to stab you in the back or kick you in the groin. This is what’s going on with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’s double-dealing hand waving about the proposal to delist gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes.

Watch the hand! Watch the hand!

Isn’t the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) special? They care about the citizens’ desires in that region to help offer some relief from overblown gray wolf populations that they are saying they intend to delist (remove from federal protection of the Endangered Species Act) the gray wolves because they have fully recovered. I emboldened that last bit to draw your attention as I will follow up on this momentarily.

While you’re watching the one hand of USFWS the other is cheating and scheming on two fronts…. at least. Perhaps you are unaware of one or both of these.

Appearing to give a rats left ear about you, the USFWS says they want to delist wolves, while at the same time, with a hand behind their backs, they magically produce a second species of wolf, i.e. the eastern wolf. Before I go any further, let me ask readers this question. For as long as the corrupt USFWS has been trying to delist wolves in the Northern Rockies, why did it take an illegal act of Congress to achieve that goal? Continue!

Any fool knows that not even experts can look at a wolf and tell you what kind it is. Heck, most can’t even tell the difference between a wolf and a coyote. So, to cover the back end of the USFWS, who are trying to be friends with sane people and not lose the financial support of their environmentalist insane friends, they whipped up a new wolf species, knowing full well doing such would not allow for any kind of population control of Western Great Lakes gray wolves. This is the plan, in case you are not aware.

Employment of the gray wolf as a destructive tool of the environmentalist, progressive movement hasn’t run its useful course as of yet. The rules change constantly.

With this blackhearted chess move by the USFWS, nothing will change. What can change? How are fish and game biologists and authorities, let alone hunters and trappers, going to be able to go about “managing” delisted gray wolves when they are sharing space with the Disneyesque eastern wolf?

To refresh your memories, this maneuver also came about right after there was the serious threat of Congressional legislation that would remove “gray” wolves from administration efforts of the Endangered Species Act. What better way to counter a law targeted for “gray” wolves than to change the species and give it a different name.

If this isn’t enough, consider the fact that this kind of deceitful crap has been going on in politics since the first time the word ever appeared in the English language. There once was a day when these criminals did a better job of hiding their evil ways. Today, either people have gotten smarter or the crooks in Washington have gotten dumber (I’ll accept somewhere in the middle).

The USFWS says that the gray wolves have recovered. According to the U.S. Sportman’s Alliance, the same USFWS claims they don’t know how many gray wolves there are or eastern wolves living in shared quarters in the Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment region.

The FWS has issued proposed regulations (for a third time) to remove the WGL population of gray wolves from the endangered species list. Since the WGL wolf numbers exceed recovery goals by 600 to 1,000 percent, delisting is fully warranted. But the proposed delisting rule includes a nasty surprise: it says there are two separate wolf species in the WGL region – gray wolves (Canis lupus) and eastern wolves (Canis lycaon). The FWS does not know how many of each roam the region, but still believes gray wolves are recovered.

Can you not see the shell game going on here. This is intellectual, as well as, scientific rubbish and an insult on the intelligence of some of the dumbest people around (please take this as a light-hearted joke to make a point).

I’m reminded of a true story about my nephew when he was just about 3-4 years old. He was having a difficult day and didn’t want to eat his lunch. His father instructed him that he was not going to get down from the table until he had finished his lunch. I was visiting at the time, so my brother and I removed ourselves from the kitchen and went to sit in the living room. In a short bit, my nephew enters the room with wide eyes and childlike dishonesty and exclaims, “Dad! I’m all done eating my lunch……but don’t go look, Okay?”

We are supposed to think and act like the 3-4 year old children the U.S. Government thinks we are. Okay, okay! I’ll ask the question. If the USFWS doesn’t know how many gray wolves there are and how many eastern wolves there are, how in the hell do they know whether the gray wolves have recovered?

Oh, wait. Follow me on this. That’s their backup plan. Knowing that the environmentalists will file lawsuits, this will give them perhaps enough ammunition to win their case that wolves can’t be recovered if USFWS doesn’t know how many there are. Get it?

(Note: And we haven’t even begun to discuss how this will all play out in Judge Paul Freidman’s court. Remember, he was the judge that last ruled in the WGL wolf delisting lawsuit, stating that the USFWS didn’t have the authority to create Distinct Population Segments.)

Bill Horn, who is U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) Director of Federal Affairs, and is a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior in charge of the USFWS and Endangered Species Act, calls this move by the USFWS as a “treat deal”. USSA also makes this statement: “Why the FWS has taken this two species proposal step, contrary to the best scientific evidence, remains unknown.”

And within the very same paragraph, their own Bill Horn answers it.

“This trick deal allows the Administration to tell the Western Great Lakes states and hunters that it favors delisting, while winking and nodding to its activist pals that delisting is set up to fail,” said Horn.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to the USSA as to why the USFWS took this approach. What hasn’t made itself clear yet, at least in my mind, is what the USFWS is up to when it declared the mountain lion extinct in the East followed up immediately by its announcement that there now exists an “eastern wolf” species.

Stay tuned and wake up!

Tom Remington

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