Originally Posted by
aaalaska
I've said it before ,the wolves they brought in are not endangered, the original wolves are.And there are still a few in the lower 48. A group like this could become a non-profit and use that status to access the same funds to fight this. A suit stating these wolves are the greatest threat to the species that should be there would have to be looked at in the courts, but if we won the government could find it's self in the position of being required to remove these wolves to protect the genetics of the original species.
Alex
I doubt there ever were any viable populations in the Northern Rockies south of Glacier before 1995. A few roamers would show up here and there, but nothing that persisted. If in fact there were any in the GYE or Idaho they're long gone by now. They were either genetically diluted away or killed. People made your same argument before '95 and it didn't work then so it'll really never work now. What really needs to happen at this point is the complete gutting of both the ESA and the EAJA. They are the cause of all of these absurd lawsuits to list every common species on the planet as endangered and the blood-sucking lawyers get to rape the taxpayers in the process. I think the ESA and EAJA both had noble intentions, but they've been hijacked by special interest groups and are now just used to rob the taxpayers.