US rejects request for information on Idaho wolf attacks

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Keith Ridler, Associated Press
Updated 4:25 pm CDT, Friday, August 31, 2018

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigations into livestock deaths in Idaho blamed on wolves don't have to be made public, the U.S. government says.

The U.S. Department of Justice in documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court said the reports requested by an environmental group contain information that's exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests.

The Western Watersheds Project environmental group said it wants the reports because it suspects the U.S. Department of Agriculture and ranchers are inflating the number of wolf kills of livestock so more wolves are ordered killed in the state.

The group — a public lands and wildlife advocacy group whose main goal is to restore watersheds primarily in western U.S. states — requested the documents in January from the Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services and filed a lawsuit in July when it did not received them. Kristin Ruether, an attorney with Western Watersheds Project, said Friday that the group will press ahead with the lawsuit to get the information.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/US-rejects-request-for-information-on-Idaho-wolf-13196976.php

[2naSalit]

1. Wolves being killed because

ranchers and their buddies said so does not mean that's what happened. This has been going on for decades and needs to end. If there ever was a federal agency that should be eliminated because of graft and illegal wildlife killing in the west, it's wildlife services.

[shanny]

2. Yup, been going on since the feds started a program to pay for predator losses

...but not, say, bad weather. Suddenly all losses became predator losses. Spring storms with several feet of snow, or sudden cold snaps or just plain ol' injuries like broken legs etc just stopped occurring. Oddly.

[rwsanders]

5. It's not just wildlife services. I read the book "Operation Bite Back"...

you should see how "law enforcement" went after an activist named Ron Coronado. Same tactics used against other left leaning activists and leaders. Ruined the guys life.

Wildlife Services makes me wish I was a half-way decent hacker. I'd love to go after them.

[noneof_theabove]

3. Only militar secrets...

and others things of national security as "private".

Last I checked wolves are not a national security threat.

The F*ng goons of Don-the-failed-Con still don't understand,
they do not work for a Mafioso Cabal, but for We The People.

TURN OVER THE REPORTS.

VOTE THEM OUT 2018 ! ! !

[2naSalit]

4. And

it's f'ing Idawhore. They have been fudging the #s even before they were given management control over them in 2006, it's just how they roll. Not that the same problem isn't present in MT and WY.