Posted on 08/23/2010 12:04:05 PM PDT by jazusamo
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed an appeal earlier this month to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the relisting of the estimated 600 grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem.
“The Yellowstone grizzly population is increasing at 4 to 7 percent per year and is recovered and the agencies are committed to spending more than $3 million per year to maintain this healthy, recovered population,” said Chris Servheen, Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator, in a statement.
The Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the bears in March 2007, declaring them recovered and no longer in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act. In September 2009, District Court Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula vacated the delisting, saying the agency hadn’t adequately considered the threats of climate change and considered government protection for the bears lax.
The agency joins Safari Club International, which appealed the ruling early this year. Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg appealed the ruling in 2009, seeking to have the 9th Circuit transfer the case to a federal court in Idaho, where a separate lawsuit over grizzlies is pending.
“The state, federal, county, and tribal members of the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee are united in their support for delisting and are committed to maintaining the long-term health of the Yellowstone grizzly population,” said Steve Schmidt, Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee chairman.
The subcommittee members said that legal action to obstruct recovery efforts for grizzly bears erodes public support for species conservation and also reduces public support for the Endangered Species Act.
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s appeal began on Aug. 9 and is expected to take 12 to 18 months.
Mark Gocke/Casper Star-Tribune correspondent
A grizzly bear negotiates traffic and onlookers as it crosses the road in Yellowstone National Park last September. While it is not unusual to see grizzlies in the park, a growing bear population and a cold, wet spring have combined to produce increased bear-human encounters this summer. (Courtesy photo)
Yogi Ping!
Translation - use fictional science to promote a larger agenda, like what happened with polar bears.
Exactly!
Of course black robed kings sitting on the bench are able to take all that into consideration whereas degreed wildlife managers are clueless. /sarc
And the sacrifice of a few citizens per year along with numerous head of livestock.
Dang! I did it again. :)
Malloy = Molloy
the Endangered Species Act was always a scam.
Yep, the product of enviro nazis and Molloy is one of their biggest supporters.
They did the same thing with the out of control Grey Wolf population in Idaho and Montana.
Gunner
“..degreed wildlife managers are clueless”
You certainly got that right!
A team of five such “wildlife managers” captured three cougars, at the corner of my property in the Everglades. Moma Cougar, A.K.A. FP124, and two juvenile offspring, known to “science” as cougar FP125 & FP 156. One male and one female juvenile cougar, according to the capture reports.
All three cats were equipped with radio collars fastened around their necks. The capture reports were signed by a Vet, “Blankenship, DVM”.
This five person “wildlife management team made a slight error. The “female” cougar, which had been described as “non-lactating” turned out to have two fully descended, clearly visible testicles.
Perhaps these experts assumed that long tail on that cat was attached by the furry ‘nuts’ just under the tail?
Question for the FR community: Do judges or gooberment ‘experts’ make the dumbest decisions?
Addendum to post #10: FP 156 should be FP 126.
My apologies.
LOL!
Not too surprising. I guess that makes Molloy more clueless than the clueless. :)
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