"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." H.L. Mencken

Eco-environmentalists, the MI-DNR, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are lauding the success of the MI-WI-MN wolf reintroduction initiative and using it to champion the value of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as a tool for species recovery.

   Since wolves have never been in danger of becoming extinct, the reintroduction of the vicious predators in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is far from commendable unless one wants to consider forcing Yoopers to live with an over-abundance of wolves a success story.  It is, in fact, a farce of major proportions being carried out in many states and so is the ESA, which has done little to nothing to save species since it was enacted in 1973 to become part and parcel of the international “Biodiversity Action Plan” ala the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity.

   Since 1973, at least 1,126 species have been put on the federal endangered list, mainly because lawsuits by non-government environmental organizations have been initiated to put them there.  Of those 1,126 species that have been listed, only 11 have purportedly recovered.  That’s less than 1% that have been saved at great cost to humans, whether those species truly contribute anything of value to Gang Greens’ conceptualized and computer-modeled vision of healthy eco-systems or not.  There’s also the cost to wildlife such as deer and elk that are a good part of the carnivorous predator menu.

   There are tens of thousands of wolves just over the northern U.S. border and countless more dining on children in India and other countries, and so to say wolves have been an endangered or threatened species at the brink of extinction is an out-right lie.

   The only thing successful about taking wolves off the endangered list in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota has been the deception with which this part of the national Wildlands Project re-wilding was initially implemented, including hauling a couple hundred wolves to the U.P. from other areas and sending out a minuscule number of Michigan wolf surveys designed to get favorable results needed by the re-wilders when the UN’s Isle Royale Biosphere kicked into full speed mode in the mid-1990’s.

   Folks at the Yooper Spectator continue to hear about wolf encounters with humans, their pets, and livestock, and most recently heard of a party in Hubbell who reports that wolves are coming down into the village from the hills just west of town.  Whether it’s a potential food source or the shrill sound of children playing outdoors that draws them isn’t known.  We’ve also recently heard from some farmers in the more western side of the peninsula and residents in rural southern Houghton County who are seeing more and more wolves in their fields and yards.

   As the number of wolves increase each year, as they eat their way through their prey base and become more acclimated to human settlements and isolated rural homeowners, there are going to be more problems and more human/wolf conflicts, which sooner or later is going to include horrific injury or death to one or more people.

   Yours truly recently received an e-mailed graphic (pdf – 954 KB) accounting of wolf depredation in just a small area of New Mexico where local landowners are trying to deal with livestock losses due to wolf  packs  and  threats  to  human  life  by  the  same.  Anyone  wishing  an  e-mailed