In reading the article regarding protection for wolves, knowing the likely claim of causation of moose mortality to include development, climate change, and alien abduction, it simply boggles the mind that wolves are dismissed easily by simply saying, “she [the Center for Biological Diversity spokesperson] doesn’t count predation by wolves as a factor.”
Tell that to Isle Royale. It’s just bizarre to me (I’d like to think I’m a logical person) that within a few weeks’ time, there are articles about 1,200 moose on Isle Royale that need a re-introduction of a wolf population or they will eat themselves out of a habitat, and then this claim of not wolves but instead climate change.
My degree is not in meteorology, but is there some sort of reverse-jet stream between the mainland and Isle Royale that causes cooling, so they are just fine and livin’ the dream out there?
I don’t mean to be so sarcasmfilled, but just to know that the people running the park (and setting government policy) are going to “study” the issue for a couple years and then make a “determination” when all one needs to do is just look at these two articles/issues in the same paper and connect the dots. It makes the eyes roll to the point where all I can see is my ever-receding hairline. A little common sense, please.
I’d say God help us but I wouldn’t want to get a letter war going with Ms. Jensen about the existence of God—I can only handle one controversy per day.
Paul Collins
Shakopee and Gunflint Trail
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