Letter to the editor:
Help me
understand. Representatives Gosar and Pearce have introduced a bill to
all but guarantee the extinction the Mexican gray wolf from our
wilderness. I would like to know where is the science or data that's
backing this decision.
I'm a certified Search and Rescue
Tactical Rope Rescue Technician and a Wilderness Tech II and have been
on hundreds of rescues over many years. In not one has a wolf ever been
implicated.
I risk my life in our wilderness providing
aid and assisting others and every living thing out there is precious to
me. Biologists affirm that Mexican wolves will only improve the health
of our wilderness just as it did for Yellowstone. Not a single person
has ever been killed by a Mexican gray wolf.
Mountain
lions and bobcats kill 30 percent more cattle and calves than wolves, so
why isn't there an all-out campaign to rid the state of these
predators? Why the wolves? 77 percent of Arizonans and 69 percent of New
Mexicans support the reintroduction of the Mexican Gray Wolf onto their
public lands. So why are they attacking and sabotaging the recovery of
this animal?
I'm proud of our heritage and this wolf is
part of it. Someone is getting into the ear of our representatives. And
it's not the scientist nor the people whom they serve.
TED BROWN
Mesa
