{"id":669,"date":"2005-04-20T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T07:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/wolf-haters\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T00:30:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T07:30:42","slug":"wolf-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/wolf-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boo-hoo for the poor wolf-haters who couldn’t get adequate representation in public meetings like the one held in Reserve, in Catron county, not a liberal hotbed. But, fortunately, they didn’t need public meetings if politicians will rush to kiss their asses.<\/p>\n

The late Joe Skeen was a tireless wolf opponent. Steve Pearce may feel the same way, or he may just realize how valuable those non-conserving conservative supporters can be. Money buys access to power. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Wolf Recovery Plan Update on Hold<\/a> By Tania Soussan, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Efforts to update a recovery plan for endangered Mexican gray wolves have been put on hold indefinitely, delaying decisions about whether to relax rules of the Southwest’s wolf reintroduction program.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suspended meetings of the recovery planning team and has no date set to resume the work, said Tracy Scheffler, a recovery biologist and primary liaison for the team. …<\/p>\n

[E]nvironmentalists also are criticizing the Fish and Wildlife Service for sending high-level staff to meetings called by Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., to discuss a five-year review of the wolf program.<\/p>\n

Pearce’s staff organized the meetings in Glenwood and Socorro for ranchers, hunters and guides who said they couldn’t express their concerns and opinions adequately at earlier public open houses<\/i> held by the wolf recovery team<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Dave Parsons, a biologist and former leader of the wolf program, said the meetings gave wolf opponents access to higher-level decision makers than other members of the public got at the open houses<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Craig Miller of Defenders of Wildlife said the meetings illustrate the “sweetheart relationship” between the livestock industry and the Bush administration<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boo-hoo for the poor wolf-haters who couldn’t get adequate representation in public meetings like the one held in Reserve, in Catron county, not a liberal hotbed. But, fortunately, they didn’t need public meetings if politicians will rush to kiss their asses. The late Joe Skeen was a tireless wolf opponent. Steve Pearce may feel the … Continue reading Wolf Haters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}