If you ever want something messed up, count on the federal government. Unfortunately, Americans are playing favorites and loving nature to a certain death. Eventually RP dollars will dry up with nowhere to hunt and no guns to shoot. Conservation will have to find new taxes to fund the new agenda of the liberal establishment. The general public won't pay for it and conservation and nature will dry up and wither away. The antis never like to admit that sportsmen fund conservation in America and I love reminding them of that fact in every encounter. For some reason, Bambi followers envision a world that can never really exist. A world of human herbivores that nurture the apex predators because they hold some fanciful and unreal supernatural ability to NOT kill everything on the landscape and they are just plain cute to look at. Their other basic premise is the belief that conservation can not exist among human hunters because, unlike the apex predators, humans are incapable of NOT killing everything if given the chance. It is so backwards and unreal to think that apex predators like the wolf can control themselves better than humans. That these predators somehow ENHANCE the ability for other species to survive and thrive. I watched in horror a documentary on PBS showing how wolves have enhanced the Yellowstone ecosystem by eliminating Elk, deer and other herbivores in favor of willows and trees, all told by a woman with a foreign, English accent. I turned it off and would not let my children watch it.
Here in Minnesota where we have nearly 4000 wolves, the wolf has destroyed deer hunting in their range and is ravaging the Moose population into oblivion. The Moose hunt was stopped two years ago. A Minnesota tradition for as long as the state has been in existence. The Minnesota DNR under a democratic controlled state government won't acknowledge the data from their moose study that shows that the number one cause of death to moose in Minnesota is the wolf. The study that they created to prove it wasn't the wolf, showed that 90 percent of calf mortality was caused by wolves in its first two years. What do you think has happened to the study? You guessed it, the governor intervened to change the study to exclude calves and hide the devastation inflicted by the wolf. Now the study is limited to adult moose mortality with the wolves only responsible for 40% of that part of the mortality. Looks better, but hides the truth. Now they are saying it is global warming and diseases spread by ticks, both of which there is no statistically relevant numbers in the study to validate. Only the wolf caused mortality numbers are statistically significant. They are slowly de-emphasizing and under funding the study now and it will probably be stopped all together in the near future. They also will not acknowledge the deer and moose declines directly follow the rise in the wolf population.
Unfortunately, I live in a state in which you can't throw a rock without hitting a liberal. Minnesotans that want control of the wolves have little federal voice in this fight for sanity in conservation unless your sanity happens to be this insanity. Minnesota did not even join the latest lawsuit with Michigan, Wisconsin and western states to delist the wolf in those states and turn management of the wolf over to the states even though we have more to lose to the wolf on a broad basis.
