4-2 SS Caribou

 Fish and Wildlife sent me a briefing saying that they had announced that the public will have an additional 60 days to submit comments regarding the agency’s proposed critical habitat designation for the southern Selkirk Mountains woodland caribou, an endangered mammal known to occur in Idaho, Washington and British Columbia, Canada. I got thinking about this whole endangered species thing, with particular regard to the Wolf issue and wondered who designated what has endangered. In other words is a bunch of environmental, highly paid lawyers? So I called up Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Meggan Laxalt Mackey: “is this as hotly contested as the Wolf endangered species issue and who is it that brings about the perception or the reality that these are indeed endangered? The Fish and Wildlife Service as well as the Canadian Ministry of the Environment have been studying caribou and actually Idaho Fish and Game, as a matter of fact originally fish and game petitioned us to list that animal years and years ago. Studies have been ongoing on this animal for years. So any time any species of plant, animal, or fish, bird or whatever, there is a call made on endangered species is an action of the Fish and Wildlife Service.