"The USFWS official plan to propose as early as next month that Grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park be removed from protection under the Endangered Species Act." -Missoulian, Missoula Mt, 11 Jun 05.
Well perhaps progress is being made. The article goes on to say that environmentalist are agaist it. Est population is at 600 bears in the YNP ecosystem. The problem as I see it, is that the ESA is a tool for the environmentlist to obstruct any kind of natural resource consumption. The logging here in Montana has been virtually destroyed by obstructionist environmentalist. Mills shut down due to lack of product, while hundreds of thousands of acres of dead timber rots where it stands within miles of the mill, it is insane. Logging used to be one of the primary industries in Montana and one of the few ways average Joes could make a decent living. Loggers have been replaced with Kalifornia liberals who have driven up land prices so bad, none of the local can afford property anymore. Then the liberals shut down these vast tracks of land to hunting by restricting access. Ranchers, who are often land rich and money poor, end up selling pieces of their property to pay inflated property taxes until the ranch is gone, and with it the hunting opportunities. Environmentalist are destroying this place.