PBS Poll Results Favor Wolf Control
The extremely liberal TV “news” show NOW on public television aired an hour-long pro-wolf report in February entitled “Hunting Wolves, Saving Wolves.”
The one-sided report fawned all over eco-litigious wolf loving groups and poked Obama in the eye for allowing the US Fish and Wildlife Service to delist wolves [here]:
Last year the Obama Administration removed federal protection from some of the wolves that had been restored to the northern Rockies under the Endangered Species Act. The move paved the way for controversial state-regulated wolf hunts.
Wolf advocates strongly oppose the administrations decision saying the three states in the region, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming need a cohesive management plan that allows for a much larger wolf population. “It was very disappointing when Secretary Salazar in the Obama Administration, signed off on this rushed-through Bush administration delisting package for wolves,” said Doug Honnold, a lawyer with Earthjustice, who is representing conservation groups challenging the government’s decision. …
More than a dozen conversation groups have sued the Interior Department to return federal protection to the northern Rockies wolves. Some believe the result of this legal debate is a litmus test for the Obama Administration’s overall approach to wildlife issues and the Endangered Species Act.
Wolf delisting is required by law, since wolves are in no way endangered. Efforts by the USFWS to delist have been going on for six years or more, but have been repeatedly thwarted by lawsuits from lobby groups (that collect $billions in EAJA monies for their monkey wrenching efforts).
Despite the puerile propaganda aired by PBS, viewers see things differently. In a poll accompanying the web article about the NOW report, 74% of voters believe delisting is the right thing to do.
The Weekly Q
Do you believe wolves in the Northern Rockies require federal protection?
Evidently people are not quite as gullible as the producers of NOW. Note that the poll voters are PBS viewers. It’s not a balanced sampling, but one biased toward the liberal side. Yet even the liberals are not persuaded. Had the poll been a fair sampling across all the citizenry, the numbers would have been 90% or more in favor of delisting.
Wolves are not endangered. Elk are — and deer, and livestock, and pets, and children waiting for the school bus, and teachers out jogging. They are all threatened by exotic wolves dumped in their midst by an overreaching Federal Government 15 years ago. The dozen or so Canadian wolves inflicted on the Northern Rockies have multiplied and now number more than 5,000.
Next up for NOW, a report on the virtues of plague rats, and how spreading bubonic plague via wildlife is just what the liberal doctors ordered.
