[nightdriver]

"That being said there should never be the proverbial "open season" on any endangered resource."

Well, back when I tried to make a living farming, my calves and cattle were also an "endangered resourse," at least they were to my family and neighbors.

I don't recall wolves and coyotes as being all that necessary, but who was I to say? I was just someone who had to live with the danger they presented to my survival, I wasn't some bearded hippy-type that was trying to impose predators on someone else under the guise of "ecologic diversity," or some such nonsense.

[george76]

"my calves and cattle were also an "endangered resourse," at least they were to my family and neighbors..."

Many family farmers and family ranchers are an "endangered resourse."

As are many small towns with only one main industry like logging, mining, hunting, farming...

[Wizy]

under the guise of "ecologic diversity," or some such nonsense.

Please explain how ecologic diversity is nonsense. Are seriously going to tell me that actual scientific research is nonsense. Well you know...who am I to judge, I mean...I only the first half of my life on my grandparents farm, watching their topsoil erode (their livelihood) year after year, while they didn't recognize the problem. And the last ten years or so studying this "nonsense" to figure out how to do something about it. While "wildlife" and "ecologic diversity" are not my primary areas of knowledge, they do play a vital role in it. But as I said before who am I to judge, it is much better to shoot first and ask pesky questions later. I mean just because some of these people telling us this "nonsense" about biodiversity spent decades actually learning something about it, doesn't mean they know anything.