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eNewsletter |
February 2001 |
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IWMC
World Conservation Trust |
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Red Wolf
To be or not to be Endangered?
by James M. Beers
Biologist |
Phase I
A recent article in the Washington Times...
...questioned the legality of the Federal government introducing endangered
species where they have not occurred before and then forcing citizens to
tolerate their depredations and threats with no recourse. The article pointed
out how this is based on the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution and that
such clause never intended or should be used to justify such infamous
activities.
Phase II
An Upset Extreme NGO...
...several days later, the Legal Director of the Defenders of Wildlife wrote
a nasty letter to the newspaper. It said, among other things:
- "The protection of biological diversity has never been the sole
province of the states" [Not true, until the 1917 Migratory Bird Treaty it
was the sole province of the states and they did fine.]
- "To be sure it is only because the states were and remain incapable of
addressing the loss of biological diversity that the Federal government moved to
enact the ESA and other wildlife protection laws" [This is the lie you had
to keep retelling according to Hitler to get people to believe it. American
states with their rednecks and poor are like the 3rd world with their natives
and exploiters; sorely in need of the elites in Washington, Brussels, or United
Kingdom to tell them what they need and how to live.]
- Finally, he calls the red wolf, "one of the world's most endangered
mammals." [That is an absolute outrage to anyone familiar with the history
of "finding" and "listing" those dark coyotes. Even
subsequent genetics show that it is a mongrel predator. That doesn't stop the
legal hyperbole and public relations nonsense.]
Like the making of sausage, Endangered Species in the US as with CITES
world-wide are not things to be viewed close-up.
Phase III
James M. Beers sent a letter to the Washington
Times, published on Sunday, 18 February.
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Misplaced Humour
As a retired wildlife biologist who enjoys humour, I suggest that the next
time The Defenders of Wildlife writes you to attack Mr. Smith over a red wolf
article that you put their letter in the funny pages.
Cutting through all the biodiversity smoke screen of nonsense and focusing on
their Endangered Species objections one is faced with irony of the highest
order. The red wolf is neither endangered or a species.
The red wolf is a genetic mix of mostly coyote with significant parts of wolf
and domestic dog. It is not a species, or a subspecies, or a race, or a
population, or a distinct population segment (only the first biological division
- species - was ever intended for Federal Listing although all the others
outnumber them on the List) it is a mix, much like the beagle that was bred by
the lab down the street. It is one of the brightest examples of how the
Endangered Species Act has run amok and become a tool for power grabbing by the
Federal government and their accomplices such as The Defenders of Wildlife.
I think right below Mallard Fillmore and above Fred Basset would be the
perfect spot. |
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