Simpson Wolf Delisting

Simpson Defends Wolf Delisting. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson talked sage-grouse and wolves recently during hearings on the budget request for the Department of Interior.  During the hearing, Simpson, a member of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, responded harshly to criticisms by Democrats of the decision to remove wolves from the endangered species list and Idaho’s management of wolf populations.

 

“You have got to remember that these wolves were reintroduced as a nonessential, experimental population. Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have complied with the requirements when they were reintroduced and it has now gone over to state management,” said Simpson. “ Anyone that believed that we were actually going to reintroduce wolves into this environment and they weren’t going to explode in numbers and that we weren’t going it have to manage them like we do other species, was living in fantasy world.”

 

To stress the impact wolves have on ranchers and families in Idaho Simpson told the Committee, “I’ll bring you a picture… and it’s of the 200 sheep that were killed, the five dogs, and the horse that were killed in one night, by wolves in Idaho.”