The following note (see last Saturday) came to Doc40 from Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council…
"It's the best possible news. Seven weeks after we went to court, a federal judge has ordered the Bush Administration to restore endangered species protections for wolves in the northern Rockies until the full case can be heard. This interim victory is nothing less than a life-saving reprieve for hundreds of wolves outside Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. Since the Bush Administration stripped the region's wolves of federal protection, a total of 110 wolves have been brutally killed in as many days. But Judge Donald Molloy ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service "acted arbitrarily" in taking the wolf off the endangered species list and turning their management over to the states. That means Wyoming, Montana and Idaho will be forced to abandon plans to allow the extermination of hundreds of wolves this fall as part of a massive public hunt -- the first in more than three decades. Simply put, the wolves of Yellowstone and the northern Rockies are much, much safer today than they were just last week. This incredible, eleventh-hour victory never would have happened without your strong support."
The secret word is Howl
Common sense but it should never have to come to this.
ReplyDeleteMassive public hunt!? You'd like to turn the tables on those that dream up such barbarism