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From DOW: We’ve never been closer to a nation without wolves…without panthers…without sea otters, wolverines or songbirds. The escalating war on the wildlife we all love has just taken a terrifying turn. Yesterday, the Trump Administration put forward proposals that essentially take a chainsaw to the Endangered Species Act. If these proposals are enacted, wolves and other imperiled wildlife will be left to the mercy of hostile states. And you know all too well where that leads. Without a strong Endangered Species Act, states like Idaho and Wyoming could push wolves – and other animals we cherish – to the point of extermination. These reckless proposals represent the gravest setback I have seen in my 35-year career as a wildlife biologist. Looking ahead, unless we stop this, Mexican gray wolves will once again disappear in the Southwest. Red wolves will once again go extinct in the wild. And our beloved… |
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Exposing the Big Game 
It really isn’t going to take long until we are back to the pre-protection, near extirpation of wolves again. I’m just terribly dismayed that we as humans have only had limited progress on enlightenment (60s-70s) , and then it is back to the way it always was, greed was good in the 80s and onward. Prove me wrong, I hope. 😦
As Hunter S. Thompson pointed out, the wave crested in the early ’70s…