Are To! Are Not! Are To! Wolves....

February 2, 2005

Judge says Bush admin wrong in claiming NW wolves aren't endangered

Yesterday, a federal judge rescinded the 2003 federal rule

downgrading gray wolves in the Northwest U.S. from endangered to

threatened under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Bush

administration's decision was " not based on the present or future

threats to the wolf or the best available science. " Interior

Secretary Gale Norton based the move on thriving wolf populations in

the Northern Rocky Mountains -- in effect, said Michael Robinson of

the Center for Biological Diversity, " gerrymander[ing] the entire

contiguous 48 states so that wolves in a few areas would make up for

the absence of wolves in much-larger regions. " The judge's decision

also reverses a rule allowing ranchers in some parts of the West to

shoot wolves that threaten their livestock. Ranchers upset by the

ruling hinted that they might break the law. Glen Stonebrink of the

Oregon Cattlemen's Association said ranchers " have to keep [wolves]

from becoming established here, and I only know one way to do that. "

straight to the source: Seattle Times, Associated Press, Jeff

Barnard, 02 Feb 2005

straight to the source: The Oregonian, Michael Milstein, 02 Feb 2005

straight to the source: Casper Star-Tribune, Whitney Royster, 02 Feb 2005

What you see is what you get

You've made your bed, you better lie in it

You choose your leaders and place your trust

As their lies wash you down and their promises rust

You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns

And the public wants what the public gets

But I don't get what this society wants

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