The adults are back in charge!
The Biden admin is fast-tracking a plan that's really set to get the country back on its feet.
The Biden administration is accelerating a proposed plan to translocate grizzly bear populations in the federally-managed North Cascades National Park, which borders rural communities in northern Washington State.
In a joint announcement, the National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published a final environmental impact statement evaluating its options for grizzly bear management in the region. The filing lists the federal government's preferred course of action as the translocation of grizzly bears from other ecosystems with an "experimental population designation."
You know what that means for Washingtonians?
I guess it's worth the risk of losing a few rural voters to bears?
(They're probably Trump voters anyway.)
The communities nearby the proposed destination for the new bear repopulation project are NOT happy about it at all.
"The status included in today's announcement may be the administration's attempt to placate the state, but we continue to stand with the ranchers and rural families in northwest Washington who do not want this proposal to move forward at all," said NCBA (National Cattlemen's Beef Association) Government Affairs Director Sigrid Johannes. "Dropping new apex predators into rural Americans' backyards is not something that the federal government should undertake without consensus."
The main issue is not just the physical safety of the residents of the nearby community. Grizzlies like to eat. And they like to eat animals. Including farm animals. If these new grizzlies find a free smorgasbord of cattle on a Washington ranch then it's game over for that ranching family.
Their ancestors tamed the land to be habitable for Humans, and so Biden is working overtime to reverse civilizational progress and just put bears back.
According to the National Park Service, Grizzly bears occupied the North Cascades and served as an "essential part of the ecosystem" for thousands of years. However, in the 20th century, as a result of aggressive hunting practices, the species was driven into near extinction, and the last confirmed sighting of a grizzly bear in the North Cascades ecosystem was in 1996.
Reintroducing grizzly bear populations in Washington, therefore, has been a priority for environmental groups who have argued that the species is vital for the wider ecosystem.
Maybe I'm crazy, but isn't there a way to be pro-conservation and also pro-humans and human flourishing and anti-mankiller?
Idea: Has anyone thought about putting the grizzlies on the southern border??
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