The cult of greens/animal protectors/tree huggers/et al is frothing at the mouth. Congress has stepped in and overridden the cult and one of their judges allowing Interior Department scientists to take an action they determined was appropriate.
The Rocky Mountain Wolf has been on the endangered species list but has seen its numbers grow significantly in recent years, particularly in Montana and Idaho. There is always tension between predators, ranchers and hunters.
Ranchers and hunters in these two states have been asking to hunt wolves in order to protect livestock and declining elk, moose and deer herds. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks went to the Interior Department and the Feds agreed to adopt the states’ management plans, removing wolves from the endangered list in those two states.
The cults sued. Never the less, the two sides had recently reached a settlement but the judge – 9th Circuit, of course – rejected it.
So a bipartisan pair of legislators passed a bill requiring the Interior Department to do what it originally intended and also precluded judicial review. Hallelujah.
If you read this NYT article on the subject, you might be as amazed as I was by the utter hypocrisy of reporter and the cults.
First the reporter makes it sound as though Congress overrode the Interior Department when if you keep reading you discover that it was a judge that got overridden.
The reporter and the cult conflate budget cuts with the wolf issue – the propagandist at work.
Next, the two try to suggest that the government scientists have been overridden by politicians. The truth is that the state and federal scientists were over ridden by cultists taking advantage of our broken tort system. And even after the scientists and the cultists agreed, a judge decided he knows better than everyone. How screwed up is that?
It’s past time we put the cultists back in their box. Doing so will likely require either tort reform or a return to government immunity from harassment.
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