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protect the wolves, sacred resource protection zone

By way of supplement to yesterday’s Update #14, there are bills pending in the House and Senate that would effectively overturn the great HSUS wolf decision discussed below.  The bills (1) direct the US Fish & Wildlife Service to re-issue the final rules removing ESA protection for wolves and (2) prevent judicial review of the re-issued bills.  Even if this is not a technical violation of the constitutional separation of powers, it certainly is a repugnant moral violation of that principle.  
 
If these bills pass, it would not be the first time.  Several years ago Congress did the same thing for another wolf population by sneaking a rider in a major appropriations bill.  The proponents will probably try the same deceitful tactic this time if they can’t get the legislation passed outright.
 
If you want to read the two bills, here are the links:
 
 
What did the American public do to deserve the nasty, anti-environment House and Senate that we are stuck with now?  It would be too simple to conclude that these particular anti-wolf senators and representatives have spent too much time reading Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, since I’m not sure they have that kind of attention span.
 
What if, by some miracle, the FWS concludes as a result of the current review that the HSUS case requires the GYE grizzly bear delisting rule to be withdrawn – and then withdraws it?  Will the senators and representatives from ID, MT and WY introduce grizzly bear bills comparable to the pending wolf bills?
 
Make no mistake here.  This is not only about some wolves and grizzly bears.  This is about a much broader and more fundamental issue:  Congress overriding the courts and disregarding overwhelming public sentiment.  This is an attack on basic institutions of our democracy.

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