The CROOKED POLITICIANS that inserted the rider need to be removed from Office!
The judge also pointed out that even for those who believe — in direct contradiction of the Endangered Species Act — that wolf protections can be removed state by state, it’s unclear how anyone could determine that wolves are “recovered” across the Great Lakes states, when areas such as the lower peninsula of Michigan have no resident wolf populations.
After a similar court loss removing protections for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains in 2011, Congress attached a rider to a government funding bill legislatively removing protections in Montana, Idaho, and portions of Oregon and Washington.
With Republicans now controlling Congress, it would not be surprising to again see this kind of underhanded legislative effort to remove needed protections for wolves. This would be no way to implement the Endangered Species Act, and it would set a dangerous precedent whereby anytime a species becomes inconvenient, Congress steps in and removes protections.
If those in Congress opposed to the Endangered Species Act begin pushing in 2015 for a rider to drop federal protections for wolves in the Great Lakes region — or across the nation — the only question that will remain is whether a majority of our congressional representatives and President Obama will take a stand for science and the law, or once again bow down to the wishes of the livestock and sport-hunting industries.
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