Jamie Rappaport Recovering Quotations

It reduces the prospects for recovering species, it weakens the scientific foundations for decision-making, and it takes taxpayer dollars away from conservation efforts.

Americans have made a significant commitment to recovering the wolf over the past 30 years. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is planning to turn back the clock on wolf recovery by prematurely passing management responsibility to states such as Idaho that has expressed a clear intention of immediately exterminating all of the wolves in the state.