Federal Agencies: Interior
President Obama Halts Wolf Delisting
The new administration buys time to rethink endangered special policy.By Jill Kuraitis, 1-21-09
President Barack Obama has issued a freeze on publication of federal regulations planned under the previous administration but not yet published in the Federal Register. This action, which will give the new administration a chance to review Bush-era policy decisions, will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
According to Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity, the pause will afford President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar the opportunity to rethink the previous administration’s efforts to remove wolves from the endangered species list. “Rather than remove protections from wolves in a piecemeal fashion, in the isolated locations where they have finally begun to recover from past persecution,” Robinson said, “ the Obama administration should develop and implement a national gray-wolf recovery plan that will ensure the survival of these magnificent animals.”
New West is seeking comment from local and regional officials, and will update this story as needed.
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My problem with the revolving door on wolf recovery is the changing of rules mid game. The original goal of the Northern
Rocky Mountain Recovery Region (NRMRR) was met in 2002 with 30 breeding pairs. Now there are over 75 known breeding pairs and recovery is not successful under the eyes of the Pro-wolf groups.
The President has said he wants to look at all eleventh hour desisions made by the outgoing adminitration. Standard policy.
From this we get everything from He's to reverse the delisting of wolves to he's going pay my mortgage, buy all of my gas and make me a millionare.
What are you going to do when your fantasies don't get fullfilled?
Obama is going to have a hard time bringing this country together with all these far left whackos demanding policy decisions from him that consider nothing but their lust for power. I wish him luck and hope he can stay somewhere in the middle.
A little history,
When the colonists were struggling to establish their homes and farms and push back the wilderness the wolf was a major threat.
The wolf was described as “unscrupulous,” “despicable and bloodsucking, the wolf was hated in every settlement along the Eastern seaboard. He slaughtered sheep and cattle, killed valuable dogs and it has been said that he even attacked humans.
The first wolf bounty laws were passed in every colony, payment equaled the budget for all other purposes. Payments of hogs, wine, tobacco, grain, rum, powder and lead were paid for killing a wolf. Maryland residents used wolf scalps as currency. 1632 Virginia issued a permit to kill a wild pig to anyone killing a wolf, as pigs were deemed protected by the colonist.
1642 wolves became so bad in Rhode Island day hunters were hired. Massachusetts paid bounties by method used to kill the wolf, forty shillings to anyone employing hounds, ten shillings any other way.
The colonist knew they could never farm in peace as long as the wolves were near. Diaries, notes, and reports of those times recorded in North Carolina in 1752 stated it was useless to try to raise cattle until the wolves and bears were wiped out, adding the wolves have killed many of our calves.
As late as 1820, a businessman failed in his woolen-goods mill at Ding-mans Ferry Pennsylvania because his sheep were killed off by wolves.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson spoke and wrote with feeling of the wolf problem in Virginia in the closing years of the 18th century.
The war against the wolf killing livestock traveled westward as the people settled the land and provided a home for their families. Even though wildlife present, wolves continue to seek out livestock, capture and eat them alive at great economic loss.
Here in New Mexico..The Mexican Gray Wolf...
In 2009 the same problems exist between wolves and livestock that began in the colonial days. Nothing has changed and nothing will change in the future between wolves and livestock.
New Mexico has had wolves on the ground for ten years now. For the last several years there has been a major problem with habituated wolves that seek out humans and human use areas. The killing of pets in front of children at homes and wolves confronting children has produced documented psychological trauma, “PTSD” post traumatic stress disorder. Still there is no action by AMOC or any of the Wolf Recovery Signatory Agencies to mitigate this problem.
It is a fact that there are major negative impacts caused by wolves, but all are overlooked to benefit the wolf. There is no concern to protect children from "Habituated Wolves" who seek out humans and human use areas.
In Catron County, out of 270 wolf complaints, 135 were on Private Property. Many Mexican Wolves are flawed and lack wild wolf characteristics and this is a major problem the rural folks have to live with daily.
Wolf recovery is managed by pro-wolf law suits, not science, facts, or morality. Also, most media suck from the same teat.
Reminds me of one time a woman started talking to me and said she had just been at meeting for wildlife corridor. It all sounded really nice. I asked how she thought they would obtain the land needed for the corridor. End of discussion. She left and went to talk to someone else who drinks the Kool-aid.
Obama appears very radical and leftist. I only hope some centrists can bring his agenda to more realistic central goals. Otherwise this country is history. It will never recover from this disaster.
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He doesn't cite a single fact to support his opinion.
But Ernie, what about all the scientific papers that have been written on the restored wolves of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming? How does that fit into your statement? Or were you unaware of the studies?
Stop the killing of the wolf's