Delisting Wolves

Sitting in the general store in Elk City, Carmen Williams considers the feds’ insistence on bringing back the wolves and sees a deeper motivation. “Gun control in disguise,” he says. “If we don’t have any game left to shoot, what’s the sense to carrying a rifle?” These aren’t majority opinions in Idaho, but they represent powerful political undercurrents, which have been intensified over the past few years by the prolonged court battles over when and how to take the growing wolf population off the endangered species list.

via Gray Wolf In Cross Hairs Again After Delisting : NPR.


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