Letter to a Minnesota Paper

The Endangered Species Pyramid Scheme

 

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I don’t know who is more to be pitied; your paper for publishing a government racket as being legitimate or your readers that actually read about such an outright raid on our Treasury and Rights, and consider it seriously. Your Local item from “Northern Minnesota” titled “2 groups call for federal moose protection” under the Endangered Species Act is so outrageous that if I didn’t laugh I would have to cry.

First, the federal government declared wolves “endangered” and the state went along. Then the wolves increased and surprising to all but Isle Royale visitors, moose decrease due to wolf predation . Then the state is “allowed” (by benevolent federal bureaucrats) to “manage” wolves, but are soon stopped by environmental radicals in league with the federal bureaucrats, from managing Minnesota wolves at all. Moose continue to decline while the DNR begs for millions of dollars to investigate everything from ticks and global warming to “unspecified” diseases to determine why moose are disappearing; all the while “knowing” (how?) and assuring us it is not wolf predation, despite the Isle Royale model just offshore in Lake Superior.

So now the feds (always hungry for another “species” to save); the DNR (that has folded like a cheap suit ever since a perfectly healthy Minnesota wolf population was seized by the feds); and the environmental radical racketeers that caused this moose/wolf contretemps to begin with, all combine to propose spending more money we don’t have to restrict more rural activity in the midst of an economic slump to “List” moose in a collapse that they created and sustain. Further, if we no longer hunt moose; what does it matter if their range and population is less than when we hunted them? Does anyone seriously believe that “listing” moose and establishing federal authority and radical environmental philosophies over the moose (a Ponzi Scheme of the first order) will ever result in resumed hunting?

The truth is the moose will continue to decrease and stay decreased as long as they are collocated with robust wolf populations. Cut the wolves by 75% and keep them at low densities and the moose will stabilize and begin to increase. What your paper and these “groups” advocate is what I used to call “Romance” Biology and now identify as simply criminal conspiracy to defraud Americans of money we don’t have and Rights that all men should fight to keep.

Jim Beers

10 July 2015

Jim Beers is a retired US Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish andWildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.

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