Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Obama FWS Tells NYT to Try Science


Remember when the Obama Administration was going to take away all our guns, put an animal rights loon in charge of taking away all our dogs, and then ban all hunting?

That really was the nonsense being spewed by the far right, to which they also added that Obama was really foreign-born and was a closet whitey-hater.

Ah well,there is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts! 

Here we are, three years later, and there are more lawfully-owned guns in America than ever before, and the Obama Administration even lifted long-standing restrictions on guns in national parks.

Dogs?  Obama got one himself, and so far no one has come knocking on my door or yours to take away our dogs.

The "radical Animal Rights" folks in the Obama Adminisration are going to end hunting? Yeah right.  Maybe not so much

The latest from the Obama Administration comes in the form of a letter from Dan Ashe, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  Mr. Ashe, writing in response to an editorial in The New York Times about the status of wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, notes that the wolf has fully recovered in that part of the U.S.

Your Sept. 23 editorial “Way of the Wolf in Wyoming” implies that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Fish and Wildlife Service have somehow betrayed the species we worked so hard to recover. And it is recovered. Today, more than 1,650 wolves, in 244 packs, occupy the northern Rocky Mountains, exceeding recovery goals for 11 consecutive years.

We understand the emotional reaction to wolf hunting, but the facts don’t support your conclusions. Wyoming’s plan will maintain a healthy wolf population above the wildlife service’s recovery goals and set up an extensive monitoring program to ensure that this remarkable success is maintained.

Wolves will remain completely protected in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and within the National Elk Refuge. Outside of these areas, the wolf will be managed as a trophy game species subject to regulated hunting in nearly all remaining suitable wolf habitat in Wyoming. More than 90 percent of the population lives within these areas.

The Endangered Species Act has done its job for the wolf. It’s time to recognize and celebrate this environmental success and get to work on other species that truly need our help.

Regardless of what you think about wolf magagement
in this country, I think we can all agree that no one in the Obama Administration is letting Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S., or Ingrid Newkirk of PeTA, sit at the public policy table!

The Obama Adminsitration is working on science, not sentiment.   Little wonder then that those on the far right, or the far left, cannot  understand it!

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