Ground Hog Day For Wolves
February 12, 2015
Here we go again. The wolf hating trifecta of politicians, ranchers and hunters, are attempting to undermine the courts once again, by scheming to pass a bill through Congress that would overturn the Great Lakes and Wyoming wolf relisting. These people are relentless in their hatred of wolves.
“Several members of Congress are preparing legislation to take gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Wyoming off the endangered list in an attempt to undo court decisions that have blocked the states from allowing wolf hunting and trapping for sport and predator control.
U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Wis., is leading the effort, his office confirmed Tuesday. Co-sponsors include U.S. Reps. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., Dan Benishek, R-Mich., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.”…..AP
They’re unhappy with the court ruling that relisted Great Lakes wolves recently. This behavior mimics the egregious action taken against wolves in Montana…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Political Wolf Jihad Mismanagement, The Rider Strategy and Political Management
Jon Tester (D) Senator MT and Mike Simpson (R) Representative ID in April 2011 opened a Pandora’;s Box to political management and political shenanigans when they attached a rider to a defense appropriation bill in 2011 to delist wolves in MT and ID. On September 23, 2014 a federal judge put wolves back on the protected list in WY. On December 19, 2014 put wolves back on the protected list in the midwestern states of WI, MI, MN. Now Midwestern politicians and WY are trying the same thing again: circumvent federal authority through ESA or court rulings (September 23, 2014 in WY and last December December 19, 2014) which put wolves back on the endangered list because of state mismanagement and in effect scolding USFWS for not doing its job of protecting wolves from traditional enemies of wolves, hunters and ranchers and bedfellows in state wildlife agencies and conservative state legislatures and their ilk in congress and the senate. It amounts to political management of a wildlife species not scientific management. A rider is a stinky, shenanigans way of sneakily pushing through parochial legislation that would not likely stand the full light of open scrutiny.Tester likes this tactic. He and other politicians used it recently on a smorgasbord of land bills attached as riders to another defense appropriations bill (2015). Wolves do not need to be managed by hunting and trapping seasons, a wolf jihad strategy by the ignorant wolf haters that is counter productive. Wolves will fill up available niches and manage themselves and they are good for the wilderness that is still available, whereas hunters and ranchers are not. Wolves should not be in the hands of state management, especially in MT, WY, ID and the Midwest, states that have killed hundreds into the thousands since delisting. Wolves will manage their own populations in general and hunting and trapping are asinine management strategies, really just excuses for killing and catering to a minority of ignorant and mistaken, selfish and barbaric, retrograde interests.