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Congratulations to Wyoming on BIG legal
victory.
Big Game Forever Supporters, A number of you have heard of the decision by the government not to appeal Judge Johnson's decision in support of Wyoming's wolf management plan. Congratulations to the people of the state of Wyoming and all of the attorneys who have been working on this litigation for the last several years.
A
year ago, the experts told us the only solution was to
change Wyoming's plan, capitulate, wait for the next
Wyoming plan to be challenged in the courts in a couple
of years and continue to fight the Judge Malloy decision
in the Ninth Circuit court of appeals in San Francisco -
basically a BIG losing strategy for five years - all
the while wolves would continue to destroy game herds of
the West.
When no one else wanted to fight, and even told us, it couldn't be done, SFW and Big Game Forever said, we will see if Congress will act. Now with 61 Co-sponsors in the house and senate we have shown restoring states rights is a viable possibility. In so doing we have put a lot of pressure on lots of people, in lots of places to do the right thing and get wolves delisted now. So, another major victory in the wolf war. US Fish and Wildlife decided not to appeal Judge Johnson's ruling, which validates Wyoming's wolf plan. Deciding not to appeal represents a common sense approach in support of science and good public policy. This is not only a victory for Wyoming, but for every state. It is a definitive legal decision which shows that the Federal Government may not usurp state management decisions. A very hard fought victory in support of the sovereignty of state wildlife management. |
