See Wolf Report
However, if you still laugh, you just aren't comprehending
what is going on. Because it is being implemented
by your federal government along with a powerful group
of "environmenatists". (I put the term in quotes
because many of the programs they are pushing are
actually very harmful to the environment) - - It is a religious
program - - not a social or scientific one , though
it masquerades as such.
"We
live for the day when grizzlies in Chihuahua have an unbroken connection
to grizzlies in Alaska,
when gray wolf populations are continuous from New Mexico to Greenland"
"This
is a bold attempt to grope our way back to October 1492, and find a different
trail, a Trail grown
and nearly forgtotten"
"Our goal is to create a new political reality based on the needs of other species"
So says Foreman. Foreman is now a board member
of the Sierra Club. Noss is a professor at Oregon State, but
more importantly he is the policy guru of the Defenders
of Wildlife. The head of that organization is an old
college buddy and political ally of Norm Dicks.
Norm Dicks has stated he wants wolves in the ONP so he can
go up there and howl with them.
In order to implement the plan these people are working
to:
1- Encourage people to move out of rural areas
and into the city.
2- Have government and/or NGOs buy up or take the land.
3- Stop all industrial activity, farming, logging, Dams, etc. in rural areas.
4. Destroy roads, dams, power lines, etc.
So, it involves destruction of any infrastructure that it outside
the cities.
It involves getting government to purchase and/or seize land any
way they
can and for any reason anyone can come up with and/or getting NGOs
(Non government organizations - such as the Sierra Club)
to manage it.
This project was a big part of the Clinton/Gore administration.
It was pushed
heavily by Bruce Babbitt and would have been pushed by Kerry or
Gore if they
had won the election - and that is a big part of the hatred that
is being vented
on Bush for defeating them.
So, now that they have been defeated, are we safe from the political
aspect ?
Not at all.
What Clinton and Gore did accomplish was to load government agencies,
particularly the Interior department with Wild Lands
advocates. Most of them are
protected by civil service and can't be fired in any practical manner.
Bush has
been rather timid about getting rid of the higher echelon who can
be fired.
And what are they doing. They continue to promote wolves.
The wolf populations
in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are growing by leaps and bounds (far
faster then the
original estimates) and are decimating the deer and elk populations
as well as domestic
cattle.
They have promoted increases in wolf and grizzly bear populations
and have
resisted any move to take those critters off the endangered species
list. Reports
I get from Idaho and Montana say they are devastating cattle ranching.
And several
have gone to prison because they shot the creatues. The feds
put radio collars on
them, so if you kill one on your property, you can expect a visit
from armed feds.
As the West was being settled, it was clear that to raise cattle
profitably, you had to
have a lot of land. So the government set up a program where
a rancher could buy
grazing rights on federal land. These rights attached to the
rancher's home property
and has he died or moved on, they went to the heir buyer - so, they
are an essential
asset necessary for the ranch to continue to operate. For
a couple of decades, there
has been a war going on between the forest service, the BLM
and ranchers. Some
federal judges are liberals and have denied the ranchers have any
vested interest in
grazing rights. There have also been some legal victories
by ranchers. But, the bottom
line is that the ranchers are up against the federals and that is
a very tough fight.
A couple of years ago, they cut off irrigation water for farmers
in the Klamath basin,
bankrupting many of them. The excuse was sucker fish.
A useless fish that people
have been trying to eliminate for a hundred years, which are now
on the endangered
species list.
Where do we come in?
Now that they have farmers and ranchers on the run
in Montana and Idaho
to the East of us, they are about to introduce wolves
in Oregon - to the South
of us. The Oregon F&WS is all for it. Who
do you suppose will be next?
You guessed it - - Washington State.
And where in Washington State will they most likely
start? Since the
Olympic Peninsula is still pretty rural and is mostly
owned by government,
where better to start than the Olympic Peninsula?
If you are a land owner, a hunter, involved in the
wood products industry
or hope to leave your children with the option to
own land or do either of
these things, then you need to get involved.