ESA and WOLVES

[( deleted account )]

Excellent letter to the editor in the Bismarck Tribune about delisting wolves by a fellow from Mandan. Phil something. Well written, knowlegable, rational, very factual!
Im not smart enough to copy and paste a link from this tiny phone or I pad yet. Maybe somebody can help out. Thanks.

 

[Maddog]

https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/letters/gray-wolves-plan-has-been-successful/article_d4c810fa-e9d6-5f2a-8489-4a8f249b0e7a.html

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[Kentucky Windage]

Excellent letter to the editor in the Bismarck Tribune about delisting wolves by a fellow from Mandan. Phil something. Well written, knowlegable, rational, very factual!
Im not smart enough to copy and paste a link from this tiny phone or I pad yet. Maybe somebody can help out. Thanks.

Press and hold finger on link until a small menu pops up and gives you copy, paste, select, select all, etc.

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Then repeat where you intend on pasting or sending the information to.

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Or ask someone for directions.

This isnt fishing buddy anymore bra, you’re in the big league now.

 

[dukgnfsn]

I would copy and paste it but the spittoon wants money or me to allow things on my computer to get to the article and I will give nothing to them so I guess no reading it for me dukgnfsn

 

[camoman]

I think that wolves can be delisted, however there will have to continue to be some conservation measures to manage the population appropriately. Opening the hunting season on wolves like it is for coyotes in a lot of those states won’t bode well for the population. Like it or not, wolves are a keystone species in the west.

 

[Kurtr]

They are delisted out west have been for six or more years this is the Great Lakes ones where they need to have a hunting season in a really bad way

 

[guywhofishes]

I’m responding to Brenda Peterson’s July 25 letter where she objected to the proposal to delist the gray wolf from the protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act. The ESA was enacted in 1973 to not only protect imperiled species from extinction, but also to promote the recovery of those species to population levels that would eventually preclude further protection and thus allow for delisting.

Science-based management plans, developed by a team of wildlife experts, established measurable recovery goals for the Western Great Lakes population of gray wolves, the population which Peterson may have been referring to. Those management plans have allowed that distinct population of gray wolves to expand their numbers to levels that far exceed the original recovery goals. Thus, delisting of that population is warranted and should be viewed as an ESA success story.

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Peterson argues that delisting should not be undertaken because so much of the gray wolf’s historic range is devoid of wolves. What she fails to acknowledge is those areas are dominated by humans and human-induced landscape changes that include intensive agriculture and urbanization. Those historic ranges are not suitable habitat for wolves; however, the current range of the gray wolf provides the habitat that has allowed that population to exceed the ESA recovery goals.

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Wolves are an iconic and charismatic species, similar to the bald eagle, which was removed from ESA protection in 2007 after the population exceeded its recovery goals. When science and not emotion is used to develop management plans species, like the gray wolf, can and should be delisted from the ESA protections.


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Phil Mastrangelo, Mandan