I’ve seen dozens of editorials and articles over the last several days that claim the Bush administration is ignoring science in it’s new overhaul of rules regarding Federal agencies and how they adhere to the Endangered Species Act. The reality is that the Endangered Species Act hasn’t been ruled by science for decades. It is ruled by over-financed wildlife and environmental groups who cherry pick the the judicial system and manipulate their lawsuits to make sure a judge favorable to their causes forces the implementation of the Endangered Species Act in a way that benefits THEIR agendas.
It’s been over a decade since wolves were forced down the throats of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, with the reintroduction of an “experimental” population. It was determined that a “successful” population would consist of about 300 wolves roaming Northwest Wyoming, Yellowstone Park, and the bordering areas of Montana and Idaho. It wasn’t until the poplulation reached over 1800 that the feds finally turned over management of the wolves to the individual states, and now a federal judge in Montana has decided that those 1800 wolves don’t represent a large enough population and has returned management control of the wolves to the feds. The numbers were obviously good enough for the “scientists” that planned the reintroduction in the first place! But it isn’t about the science is it? The ESA has never been about the science.
The Endangered Species Act has always been about one group of people forcing their agendas upon another group of people. If it was about science, animal species would be removed from their places on the endangered species’ lists when their populations increased and their risk for extinction was reduced. That’s not the way it works, though. When a species recovers enough to meet its goals, the socio(enviromenta)lists sue and get a judge in some ubiquitous federal court somewhere to change the goals.
Now, being endangered isn’t even a requirement to be put on the list. Now, the political perception of a species’ endangerment is enough to get it on the list. There are more polar bears on this planet now than in any time in history, or at least since we’ve been counting them! But, based on projected models created by politicians - not scientists - that the ice they call home MIGHT disappear, they have been listed as endangered. So, because something might or might not happen somedaym because of something that might or might not be happening in the environment, that might or might not be caused by something that humans are doing, the socio(environmenta)lists have one more piece of ammunition in their litigious warchests that they can use to shove even more of their marxist crap down our throats.
So, the Bush administration’s decision to allow one bunch of bureaucrats instead of another bunch of bureaucrats to administer decisions concerning the effects of the ESA on federal projects isn’t any different than allowing one judge to decide how the ESA is administered instead of another.
The Endangered Species Act was broken before it was enacted in the first place and is just one more example of how the federal government shouldn’t be usurping the Constitutional authority guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment - “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” I’ve read and read the Constitution, and nowhere does it say that the federal government has the authority to manage wildlife to the exclusion of the authority of the States.
In the end, all the ruling by the federal judge in Montana means is that people who shoot wolves will just go back to not reporting it.
-Wisdom
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