“Experts” are everywhere.

Certain economic “experts” tell us to raise taxes while others tell us to lower taxes.

Certain education “experts” tell us to pay teachers more and give them more authority while others tell us that strengthening families and marriage are what is needed.

Certain political “experts” tell us more socialism is the answer while others tell us that capitalism is the answer.

Certain science ‘experts” tell us the world is turning into a hothouse and only if governments are granted total control of our lives will any of us survive while others say that is hooey and freedom with limited government was and is the best hope for mankind.

“Experts” like the poor, always were and always will be with us.  That we should be concerned about their (the “experts”) happiness is certainly something I have never given any thought to.

As I read the brief Minnesota newspaper article attached below, I first asked myself why the “experts’” happiness should concern me and just who are these unhappy “experts”.

After 50 years in the wildlife management business, I must admit that calling the International Wolf Center in Ely and Wild Earth Guardians “experts” is like calling “Wall Street Occupiers” financial experts.  They are simply radicals out to wreck the status quo.  Just as the “Occupiers” want to destroy capitalism; these “Guardians” and that “Wolf Center” want to ultimately destroy federal Constitutional limits, ranching, public land management, private rural land ownership, state jurisdictions, local governments, hunting, fishing, logging, 2^nd Amendment rights, and rural American residency and lifestyles.  While this is only a shortened list of their goals, to say they are “experts” when they are simply radical activists mumbling “science” is both funny and sad.

Like abortion advocates clothing their despicable cause in studies of how more abortion, public funding for abortion, no parental responsibility for abortion, and forcing religious institutions to provide abortions in violation of their conscience is “safer” than prohibiting abortion; these radicals using wolves as political tools clothe their agendas in the always-dependable media designation of “experts”.

I, for one, find their “unhappiness” both gratifying and intriguing.  Anything that makes such extremists “unhappy” is something I will pay to see and even before I see it, I will recommend it to all Americans.  “The Grey” is a movie I plan to see as soon as I can.

The Age of Experts, like the Happiness of Experts, is something that can’t become extinct any too fast for me.

Jim Beers

29 January 2012

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Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist,
Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC.  He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands.  He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC.  He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority.  He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades. 

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State wolf experts unhappy with portrayal of animals in new movie 'The Grey'

Associated Press

Posted: 01/28/2012

A new action movie starring Liam Neeson features snarling villains hunting people in packs in snowy, desolate Alaska - a misleading portrayal of wolves according to wolf experts.

"The Grey," which opened this weekend, is the fictional account of an oil-drilling team that gets stranded deep in Alaska after a plane crash. The crew must try to survive human-hungry wolves. Trailers for the movie show a snow-bearded Neeson stumbling around the woods, broken bottles affixed to his knuckles, ready to protect himself from the ferocious cousin of Cujo.

The newly non-endangered canine is getting the "Jaws" treatment, from a movie monster perspective.

"The wolf seems to be a popular target in Hollywood," said Nancy Gibson, co-founder of the International Wolf Center in Ely.

While local wolf experts are giving it the Hollywood-being-Hollywood dismissal, other organizations are calling for a boycott of the film.

Wild Earth Guardians, an organization that works to protect wildlife and wild places, has asked members to stay clear of the film directed by Joe Carnahan.

"Hollywood is inciting terror instead of instilling awe for this beautiful and charismatic creature," it says on the organization's website.

There are about 3,000 wolves in Minnesota, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Wolves were removed Friday from the federal Endangered Species list, where they had been since 1974. The DNR has prepared a proposal for hunting and trapping seasons in the fall.

Wolves are known to kill livestock at times, but Gibson said there have been only two confirmed wolf attacks on humans, in Alaska and in Canada. She said millions of people visit the Superior National Forest and there has never been a wolf attack.

The new action movie, however, will probably give some people the impression that wolves are a dangerous menace.

"It is safe to walk in the woods," Gibson said. "That this is a sensational situation with wolves - that is unfortunate. It's poor timing with the wolves being de-listed. It feeds the myth of wolves."