<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Judge puts Great Lakes wolves back on endangered-species list]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by BlackBear http://www.grist.org/article/wolf4/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:23:44 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/wolf4/1 Huzzah!

To echo the sentiment, if not the actual words of Aldo Leopold, a forest without its wolves is just a stand of trees.

I'm still not entirely sure that I like the ESA because it forces us to focus on individual species which leads to all this nonsense about whether or not numbers are up or down (see: polar bears, ivory billed woodpeckers, et al). In addition not every species is "attractive" (Pearly Winged Mussel, anyone?) and so its hard for anyone to see protecting them as terribly important.

It would make more ecologic sense (but would admittedly be harder to approve) if we were in the business of Endangered Ecosystem Protection.

A pipe dream? Impossible? Principles cannot be compromised and the facts do not bend.

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To echo the sentiment, if not the actual words of Aldo Leopold, a forest without its wolves is just a stand of trees.

I'm still not entirely sure that I like the ESA because it forces us to focus on individual species which leads to all this nonsense about whether or not numbers are up or down (see: polar bears, ivory billed woodpeckers, et al). In addition not every species is "attractive" (Pearly Winged Mussel, anyone?) and so its hard for anyone to see protecting them as terribly important.

It would make more ecologic sense (but would admittedly be harder to approve) if we were in the business of Endangered Ecosystem Protection.

A pipe dream? Impossible? Principles cannot be compromised and the facts do not bend.

]]> Comment #2 by Annimal http://www.grist.org/article/wolf4/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:39:19 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/wolf4/2 Woves and Protection

Methinks the wolf hate is as big in the US as it is in Scandinavia. Read my blog post on this :

http://annimal.bloggsida.se/diverse/illegal-hunting-of-pr ...

It is also strange that in other countries with wolves such as Russia , Estonia , Romania etc , there's hardly no wolf hate at all. People have also big dogs to protect the livestock.

In Sweden thre's a big wolf hate in rural communities. They blame the urbanites to not understand the issue , and say you wouldn't like to have them in your neighbourhood neither.

Wolves are also good for the environment since they kill moose and the left overs from the cadavers are very suitable food for Arctic foxes , that mostly are an endangered species. For example , in Sweden there are only 120 Arctic foxes.

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Methinks the wolf hate is as big in the US as it is in Scandinavia. Read my blog post on this :

http://annimal.bloggsida.se/diverse/illegal-hunting-of-pr ...

It is also strange that in other countries with wolves such as Russia , Estonia , Romania etc , there's hardly no wolf hate at all. People have also big dogs to protect the livestock.

In Sweden thre's a big wolf hate in rural communities. They blame the urbanites to not understand the issue , and say you wouldn't like to have them in your neighbourhood neither.

Wolves are also good for the environment since they kill moose and the left overs from the cadavers are very suitable food for Arctic foxes , that mostly are an endangered species. For example , in Sweden there are only 120 Arctic foxes.

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