Saturday, April 27, 2013
Small move toward sanity?
Sounds like federal wildlife officials are moving away from bizarre anti-science anti-Darwin "endangered species" shit, and moving back toward a more normal and scientific approach to managing critters.
A draft U.S. Department of Interior rule says roughly 5,000 wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes are enough to prevent the species' extinction. It says having gray wolves elsewhere - such as the West Coast, parts of New England and the Southern Rockies - is unnecessary for their survival. The rule would give control of wolves to state wildlife agencies, which wildlife advocates warn could effectively halt the species' expansion.I don't know if this marks a broader change of attitude, but at least in this one case Interior has returned to the actual meaning of 'species'. Until now, the ESA defined any little population in any little location as a 'species', even when the same animal was wildly abundant elsewhere. Until now, the feds were explicitly committed to wiping out humanity. This marks their first hesitant reversal from total genocide. ¶ 4:42 AM
