Rural property rights, safety of people are what's endangered


Thursday, August 3, 2006 10:11 AM MDT

To the Editor:

Regarding the ‘What to do if you meet a wolf' recent AP article, please visit
http://www.clearwaterprogress.com/wolf%20attack.htm and consider what you see and read there.

‘Advice' originating from ‘wolf recovery coordinator' Ed Bangs, whose job depends on his ability to sell ‘wolf recovery' and ‘protection' to the public, is suspect. Wolves aren't the endangered ones, as those living in rural Idaho, Montana and Wyoming know only too well.

Those ‘yelling and pepper spraying' may well become wolf scat, i.e., wolf meals. Locals laugh bitterly at advice to tie bells on dogs or children. The wry answer to how you can tell a problem large predator is, “The bells in its poop.”

That's not funny to those whose animals have succumbed to this plague of ‘endangered' wolves.

Unless her remains are found in scat, a child currently missing in Idaho wolf country won't be declared a ‘confirmed human kill.' There are legions of missing calves, lambs, foals and dogs. Unless the animal is deemed ‘livestock,' there is nothing done.

If the ‘prey species' is livestock, the evidence must be available: whenever the state fish and game officer finally arrives to take the report, usually days after the fact. Wolves eat evidence, so livestock owners are rarely compensated. If victims are family pets - too bad. Wolves currently lead a charmed existence, ‘protected' under the guise of being ‘endangered.' Elk herds are vanishing in the face of this large predator and sport killer.

Rural property rights, the safety of all those in rural areas infested by large predators and eventually, your own friends and family that venture into rural areas to vacation and recreate, are what are really endangered.

The Endangered Species Act regulates ‘international trade' in ‘endangered species.' It doesn't guarantee jobs for those dependent upon how many wolves they are paid to ‘manage.'

The agenda is to make all humans, other than the Ed Bangs variety, scat - either by leaving these rural places or by becoming the contents of large predator scat.

The agenda for those that cherish property rights and freedom is to educate folks on stalking horses like ‘endangered species,' ‘invasive species,' etc. Those endangering and invading rural America by their actions don't walk on all fours. They are the ones that should scat.

To learn more of property rights injustices, check out the Web site:
http://www.propertyrightsresearch.org

Julie Smithson, London, Ohio


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