2 thoughts on “Mexican Gray Wolves Offered Double Edged Sword…”

1. I support expanding the area into which the Mexican Gray Wolf can be introduced. But the thinking and proposal of the USFWS regarding boundary restrictions sounds political and not scientific. The boundaries should include southern UT, northern AZ, southern CO, and northern NM. The restrictions do not make sense and sounds political not scientific. Designating the Mexican Gray Wolf as nonessential and expressing the view that the 83-90 existing population could be wiped out and it would not threaten their survival is absurd. The USFWS should be protecting the population and designate it as essential not falling on the anti-wolf political spectrum. The current proposals make the USFWS sound weak on supporting a subspecies recovery. Conflicts with anti-wolf groups should be handled in an educational and wolf advocacy manner. Else recovery is compromised if not sabotaged by the very agency that should be doing the opposite. The usual anti-wolf groups of ranchers, hunters, parochials are not going to be satisfied with anything less that a repeated eradication. Their reasons (hysteria, folklore, myths and lies) are old and resistant to change, to facts, to science and logic. Species are recovered because wanton, hate killing of them is not allowed and their presence is a forced tolerance long enough for these groups to observe that their hysteria was not justified and they have adjusted to the recovered species or subspecies. Hunters and ranchers lead a war on wildlife and have for 10,000 years plus. They will only tolerate predators because the irrational, unscientific “management” of predators is not allowed. This is the job of the federal government, of USFWS. It seems that conservation groups have to be the advocates and lead in advocacy against state wildlife agencies and federal agencies such as USFWS, USDA Wildlife Services. The gray wolf and gray wolf subspecies are of course essential to a balanced ecology in which they once existed; and there are still many of their old niches left to which they should be allowed to recover for a healthy and balanced ecology and because the general public wants them recovered.

   Comment posted to USFWS current proposals regarding the Mexican Gray Wolf 08/04/2014

   State wildlife agencies, for the most part and certainly in the West and Midwest, have an unhealthy relationship with hunters and ranchers that goes against the best interests of wildlife, especially the predators, wilderness, balanced wildlife ecology, scientific versus political management. They do what they want of do, turn a deaf ear to conservationists, and call what they are doing scientific management. Dan Ashe and his underlings do this at the USFWS. State wildlife agencies do this. The problem with state wildlife agencies is that they are co-opted by the licensing and fishing fees rather than wildlife viewing fees or funding. They work for the hunters and largely see through the hunters’ lenses (lies, folklore and myth).

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