A judge ruled Tuesday that the animals delisting in 2012, which handed management of the species over to the Wyoming government, was arbitrary and capricious, and that the state isnt ready to manage wolf populations on its own. Too right...a hunting season does not qualify as a Wildlife Management Plan—only as a sick joke. I wouldnt trust Wyoming politicians to protect anything they cant mine, log, kill, or eat. In fact, most state and indeed, federal wildlife and natural resource management agencies are an insult to the very notion of conservation; e.g., uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, clear-cutting in any of our national forests, and open-season hunting of predators—not for food, mind you, but only for the sheer pleasure of killing—pretty much anywhere. In the landmark book, Slaughter the Animals, Poison the Earth this was documented quite well. And nothing has changed in the mindset of these so-called managers. Only the existence of environmental activism has led to some protections, which the Republicans attack at every opportunity for their well-paying special interests.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:06:48 +0000