Scientists find flaws in plan to lift US wolf protections
Source: Associated Press
BY MATTHEW BROWN AND JOHN FLESHER ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 31, 2019 04:58 PM
BILLINGS, MONT.
Scientists tasked with reviewing government plans to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. said in a report released Friday that the proposal has numerous factual errors and other problems.
The five-member scientific panel's conclusions were detailed in a 245-page report delivered to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
One reviewer said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service appeared to have come to a pre-determined conclusion, not supported by its own science, that wolves should come off the endangered species list.
"It looks like they decided to delist and then they compiled all the evidence that they thought supported that decision. It simply doesn't support the decision," said Adrian Treves, an environmental studies professor at the University of Wisconsin.
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Harker
(14,040 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)like "reason's" gonna work with this mob
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Wolves file amicus brief in federal court to shelf this proposal too.
Bayard
(22,168 posts)Government wolves, or the real wolves?
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)rwsanders
(2,606 posts)tiny cowards, still scared of the childhood stories of the three little pigs.
Defenders of Wildlife actually helps pay for losses of livestock, will help ranchers install and educate them on non-lethal deterrents, and even pay for range riders to protect stock. So there is no excuse to keep persecuting the wolves. Non-lethal deterrents were actually shown to be MORE EFFECTIVE than lethal deterrents in preventing livestock loss.
END the USDA's Wildlife Services (we pay to have wolves destroyed).
I avoid beef, if anyone asks why, I tell them it smells like dead wolf.