Another "Rewilding" Bait-And-Switch Is In The Works

When then-Gov. Bill Owens agreed to import an "experimental" population of Canada lynx into Colorado, based on the promise that they wouldn't be weaponized by green extremists and federal ecocrats to lock-up public lands, I knew this would happen eventually -- because no good deed goes unpunished when it comes to the Endangered Species Act.

What's the lesson here, Colorado?

Never, never, never trust what rewilders tell you when they bring allegedly endangered species into your state. They'll say anything to get them into the state; but once they're there, they'll change the rules of the game in a way that takes animal control off the table and puts public land users at a disadvantage.

It. Happens. Every. Time.

Alert Coloradans already are seeing the first inkling of what's to come when voter-approved wolves arrive here en masse. Ranchers that fall victim to predation by a pack of naturally-migrating wolves along the Wyoming border can't ask for the pack to be removed -- that's a non-starter -- or take matters into their own hands. The most they're permitted to do is to try harassing the attacking pack, by standing out in their pastures all night, banging pots and pans, presumably. That doesn't work once wolves have developed an appetite for prime sirloin. And the rewilding bait-and-switch we see occurring in other wolf-impacted states, most notably Oregon, Washington State, and California, where politicians totally beholden to the Green Lobby are in charge, tells Coloradans all they need to know about how things will go here, once imported wolves are unleashed on rural Colorado.

But wait, Colorado. More might be coming.

It's been reported that Gov. Jared Polis (D) and this animal-activist husband are keen on rewilding the state with wolverines, one of which recently killed 18 sheep in a single Utah attack. U.S. cases of wolverine predation are rare, because wolverines are rare. But as we've seen -- initially with wolves, then with grizzlies -- predation cases naturally tend to rise in tandem with predator population increases -- who da thunk it? This could soon have Colorado livestock growers facing a double-whammy if the disconnected Boulderite occupying Colorado's governor's office gets his way and reintroduced wolverines follow in the paw-prints of wolves.