1994 Wolf Environmental Impact Statement For Northern Rockies
Posted by Tom Remington on August 5, 2008
I just completed an upload of a pdf file to my server, after spending several hours reading some of it over. I say SOME of it because it is 414 pages in length. The file is of the 1994 Environmental Impact Statement the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contrived before they could actually implement an illegal act of reintroducing gray wolves into the northern Rockies area of Yellowstone, Central Idaho and Montana.
What prompted me to find the EIS and begin reading it came from information I was exposed to about Judge Donald Molloy’s recent granting of a temporary injunction to put the wolf back under the protection of the Endangered Species Act until such time that he thinks the feds can prove that the wolf is ready to be delisted. (Note: It is safe to conclude that science plays no role in this determination, only to the degree in which the judge hand picked bits and pieces of information in which he would make his ruling.)
Judge Molloy, as one can easily tell from reading his ruling, based his entire judgment on the lack of genetic viability as reason that a wolf population will not sustain itself. He claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made statements in their EIS that genetic viability was essential to the full species recovery. Is that actually true?
I will examine the document more throughly over the coming days and share with you information and thoughts about the wolf EIS and in particular how it pertains to Molloy’s argument that the wolf needs further protecting because he doesn’t want to believe that it is ongoing and that the USFWS did not make it a necessary part of wolf survival. I will also help readers understand that what was concocted by scientists prior to the final draft of the EIS and what we know as fact today, shows that much of that EIS doesn’t apply. In short, they didn’t know squat about wolves and what kind of affect their reintroduction would have.
In the meantime, if you have nothing else to do and want to wade through the 414 pages of the EIS, have fun.
Tom Remington
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The guy who wrote that thing (APP 9) is apparently Steve Fritts. That’s the man who needs to be focused on.
He is, along with David Mech, on the Southern ROckies Wolf Recovery (Sinapu, Wildlands Project, Defenders, Sierra) science advisory panel along with Paquet and Soule…so he’s probably got an ideological streak.
Maybe he’ll be honest just this once.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Who stirred you out of your grave anyway? I was hoping you had forgotten this site and moved on…..you and your many aliases. Once again I ask you to use one name and one name only.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Must be Karl Marx, or its a John Dumbed down Dewey brain indoctrinated fluffie wolfie hugger freak.
God, Ya know at least Karl Marx and the actual father of Communism Adam Weishaupt was intellectual and smart unlike these desciples of marxism who are to stupid to even debate facts and evidence.
I better go rainbow hunting again at the secret spot, you know, perform an act of ecological terrorism on a rainbow trout by setting a hook in its mouth, jerking it onto shore, tossing it into a hot frying pan and eating it.
I need to try out that anti-shark bite mettle mesh on some wolf to, hikers in Idaho might need that stuff soon, I just got an idea for a video, wolf attacks mettle mesh wearing hiker, wolf breaks his teeth, hiker sued by wolfhugger cry baby inviro group. HA
August 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm