Regarding Utah sending $500,000 more to unexplained wolf delisting efforts:
Rep. Mike McKell's (R-Spanish Fork) last-minute
appropriation to delist the wolf as a protected species is misguided.
He wants to preserve elk for hunting and fears the wolves will reduce
their numbers.
Utah's two recently spotted wolves (one of
which is dead) don't present much threat to elk. Rep. McKell might do
better to turn his attention to the extreme extraction on the Uinta
Plateau, where elk habitat is being scraped off the surface of the earth
forever to get at dirty tar sands and shale oil. Game has been abundant
in this area, but cannot survive the oil extraction.
Kathryn Albury
Salt Lake City
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