A captive red wolf grooms another at the North Carolina Museum of Life Science in Durham, N.C., in November 2017. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)In a proposal that would essentially end a 30-year effort to reestablish critically endangered American red wolves in North Carolina, the Interior Department on Wednesday announced a plan that would allow private landowners to kill wolves that stray onto their property from a protected federal wildlife refuge.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials who presented the proposal in a news conference said the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, which supports about a dozen of the 35 red wolves that roam a five-county area in eastern North Carolina, would be the only place where they would be safe.
The service’s new objective, said Leopoldo Miranda, assistant director for ecological services in the agency’s Southeast region, would be to intensively…
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Exposing the Big Game 
If they allow hunting of the red wolf it’s hard to believe they are not deliberately targeting all the predators without caring if there will be any left. Wouldn’t that be convenient for the ranchers!
Red wolves have become so rare that a few were sent to Wolf Haven in Washington to breed them, something seldom done in sanctuaries.
By the time this administration is done you have to wonder what will be left.
Court, court and more court! Somebody must have an ‘in’ with the politicians here because I don’t know why these land-owner access issues and killing permits take such precedence with top officials.
We’ve all followed the largest complainer about the red wolves, the one whose ‘property’ abuts the so-called wildlife refuge, where he trapped and held a lactating mother wolf and she died. He is quoted as saying the refuge is his own personal family hunting grounds:
http://compassnews360.com/landowner-gets-first-ever-permit-to-kill-a-red-wolf/
I wish they would put up a barrier (a Trump’s Wall, if you will) between this guy’s property and the “National” Wildlife Refuge – because I’m sure most people want the red wolves in their National public lands. But this squeaky wheel gets the attention, because most people aren’t paying attention.
There’s so much corruption and conflicts of interest with politicians – I was shocked to learn about connections to Haliburton with Ryan Zinke,and of course rampant corruption alleged with EPA’s Scott Pruitt. They behave like old-fashioned crony politics.