A New Role for Congress; The Wolf No Longer Endangered..

Congress, for the first time ever, has acted to remove an animal from the endangered species list. The animal in question ? The Grey Wolf. While issues over the Grey Wolf have been rampant in recent months in the Mountain West, this effort by Congress is an unprecedented decision. No animal has ever been delisted by congress. Fallout has been significant in environmental circles, though it has been hailed in more conservative groups.

Idaho house speaker recently made the outrageous accusation that "If we don't take care of this problem soon, we won't have any wildlife to hunt or to look at." This kind of hyperbole has certainly contributed to the zeal that anti-Wolf groups have found themselves enraptured in over the past few months, and further illustrates the kind of anti-science, anti-anti-environmental attitude rampant in Idaho and even Congress.Furthermore, the state of Idaho has declared a state of emergency based on the wolf, which will grant the state special powers to eliminate wolves.

It is not hard to imagine why this world suffers from such environmental degradation when we have such a passion for destroying it.