Dances with wolves - July 24, 2008
America’s toing and froing over whether or not grey wolves should have endangered species status is beginning to resemble a particularly farcical waltz. With both dancers thinking they’re leading the resulting spinning and movement might afford watchers some interest but it’s truly going nowhere.
After the US Fish and Wildlife Service took the wolves off the list environmentalists sued and a judge put them back on. Now Ron Gillett, of the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition, wants to put the matter before voters although there’s some debate about whether Idaho can trump federal laws in this matter (Magic Valley Times-News).
“We are very pleased this liberal judge did what he did,” Ron Gillett told the Lewiston Tribune (via AP). “Now it will be all-out war.”
A video posted to youtube by pro-wolfers contains a man alleged to be Gillett saying, “I am so sick of hearing biology and science and all that” at a meeting in April.
Image: USFWS
Comments
Why is it Americans are obsessed with killing all wildlife with guns instead of preseving it . You dont deserve such beautifull creatures .In England wildlife issues are taken seriously and so should America !
Posted by: Steven Trevaskus | August 3, 2008 03:22 PM
"In England wildlife issues are taken seriously and so should America !"
Is that because you guys killed off all your wolves years ago?
Why do we even have an "Anti-Wolf Coalition"? Are we that backwards a species that we're still anthropomorphizing animals as evil?
Posted by: Niko | August 13, 2009 03:00 PM