Earthjustice aims legal efforts at restoring ESA protections
This week, after seven months of dodging bullets, Idaho's wolves got a reprieve: the statewide hunt that left 188 of them dead is over.
The actual number of wolves killed since hunting was legalized last year is more than 500—including those shot during the Montana season and others killed by governmental agents protecting livestock.
Wolves became fair game in Idaho and Montana last year after losing the protection of the Endangered Species Act—a move initiated by the Bush administration and ultimately endorsed by the Obama administration. Almost immediately after Sec. of Interior Ken Salazar agreed to the delisting, the states of Idaho and Montana announced fall hunting seasons.
Last fall, a federal judge agreed with Earthjustice lawyers that the hunts likely are illegal, but he nonetheless allowed the hunts to proceed. The first wolf kill in Idaho occurred Sept. 1, when the season opened. Montana hunters started banging away at their wolf population on Sept. 15, nearing that state's harvest limit of 75 so fast that the season abruptly ended in November.
Earthjustice, representing 13 conservation groups, is continuing its court challenge to the delisting in U.S. District Court in Montana. The suit seeks to restore ESA protections to the wolf until wolf numbers are stronger, migration corridors are protected, and the states develop adequate laws and regulations to protect wolf populations from extinction.
Doug Honnold, the Earthjustice attorney leading the legal challenge, warned that "unless ESA protection is reinstated to wolves, both Idaho and Montana will increase wolf hunting in 2010, setting back recovery even more."
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Why do they hunt them?
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It seems that the USDA's Wildlife Service is planning to ignore the ruling of Judge Molloy and will attempt to eradicate 80 percent of the wolf population - they plan to go ahead and kill entire packs and gas the pups within the next couple of months. I agree that we shouldn't attempt to re-introduce the wolves back into areas that will only wind up killing them - even if it's against the law since the wolves have been restored to the endangered species. Why not give the wildlife groups a chance to go in and live trap and remove the wolves from Idaho, Montana and Wyoming? If the rest of the nation was truly aware of what was happening, the outcry would be deafening, but the news media doesn't deem the plight of the wolf worthwhile. So stop the name calling and at least urge the wildlife organizations to get the wolves out and call off the assassins of politics.
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I agree completely. Unfortunately, the only reason that these populations need to be controlled is because of humans. When we came to America we immediately began to kill off all of the natural predators such as wolves. Without the wolves and other predators to keep the herbivor populations down they continue to expand and grow to dangerous levels. They encroach on what humans consider "our territory" and many of these herbivors and humans are killed from the crossover. Had humans not murdered the natural predators in the first place the problem of overpopulation would not occur so readily and such useless hunting of animals would be rather unnecessary. At the same time the reason that wolves attack cattle and even small pets is because that is what they are instinctually built to do. Those creatures were put on this earth in order to feed predators. Wolves do not hunt to be cruel or to harm ranchers, they kill to eat and survive. I hope people who share our views are able to stop these pointless hunts. sesli sohbet
Jared, by the way, what's your address? Where do you live? I'd really like to come & visit you sometime ~ in the very near future.
Jared - This question is for you ~ Who was there first ? The wolves or the ranchers? I rest my case. Stop being such an evil minded idiot!!
hmm....well i do hunt but i only hunt deer and small animals...and i think hunting wolves is wrong! they need to be protected there isnt as much wolves as there is deer and groundhogs and all of those other things people hunt!! and wolves are beautiful. i don't live by any but im sure they are not doing much damage so they should be putting a stop to hunting wolves!!
If you dont live in the middle of the destruction they do than shut your fawking mouth, you dont know what you are talking about
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