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There has been so much said on MM vilifying and personally attacking two people that have been working non-stop to accomplish the impossible.
I have already posted this on another thread but Everyone needs to read this.
Wyoming may only have 1 member of Congress but I wouldn't trade for a dozen others. She can speak for herself. Notice who she doesn't mention.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis released the following statement regarding the inclusion of new language to uphold Judge Alan Johnson?s November 2010 ruling in the budget agreement to be voted on later this week:
?Upholding Judge Johnson?s ruling is crucial to advancing negotiations on a common sense wolf management plan. This language removes obstacles that would have otherwise hindered discussions on the status of the fully recovered gray wolf in Wyoming.
Returning management of the gray wolf to the State of Wyoming is the ultimate goal. Much work remains, but with this provision intact, I am confident we are closer than ever to realizing a full delisting. I look forward to that happy day.?
National Director of Big Game Forever, Ryan Benson, spoke on Lummis? efforts: ?Representative Lummis has been one of the most effective leaders to restore state?s rights to manage its wildlife, including balanced levels of wolves. She has strongly represented the people of the state of Wyoming throughout this Herculean effort. By ensuring that the wolf delisting language in CR did not reverse Judge Johnson?s ruling in favor of Wyoming?s wolf management plan, Rep. Lummis dramatically improved Wyoming?s ability to obtain approval of a common sense wolf management plan.?
Background: In a November 2010 ruling, Wyoming Federal District Court Judge Alan Johnson ruled that the USFWS had acted ?arbitrarily and capriciously? in rejecting Wyoming?s wolf management plan.
The FY2011 Continuing Resolution included language authored by Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID) and Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) that overturned the August 2010 district court decision in Montana to put wolves in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Utah back on the endangered species list.
In effect, the provision delists wolves in Idaho and Montana but threatened to supersede Judge Johnson?s November 2010 ruling. Repudiation of the ruling would jeopardize the progress of wolf management negotiations in Wyoming. The language Lummis successfully inserted allows for negotiation to continue without the language of the 2009 delisting rule hindering Judge Johnson?s ruling.
Congress is expected to approve the overall legislation later this week.
Washington, D.C. ? U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, made the following comments after wolf language in a budget bill was released. The new bill would not delist wolves in Wyoming, but makes clear a court ruling last fall that U.S. Fish and Wildlife was wrong to reject Wyo-ming?s wolf management plan, would not be effected by the new bill.
?Ideally Wyoming wolves should be removed from the Endangered Species list along with Montana and Idaho. But short of a regional delisting the next best scenario is ensuring that Wyoming is not disadvantaged in the future and that the favorable court decision is intact,? said Enzi.
?I will work to ensure that this issue is resolved and management of the wolves is returned to Wyoming. While the language does not go far enough in terms of delisting the wolves in Wyoming, it is another important step to protect our rights to have a plan that works for our state.? said Barrasso.
The Wyoming delegation worked with other members from the region to ensure that the language did not nullify District Judge Alan Johnson?s ruling that it was wrong for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) service to reject Wyoming?s wolf plan which includes appropriate protections for wolves throughout the state. The wolf provision is part of an appropriations bill to fund the government through September and is expected to be brought up for a vote in the Senate this week.
The delegation will continue to support Governor Mead?s efforts to work with the FWS to delist Wyoming?s wolves.
Enjoy, but notice who stepped in to ensure that Wyoming was not harmed buy the actions of a few Washington, D.C. insiders that have NEVER engaged in the Wyoming process since I have been involved (2003)
I have already posted this on another thread but Everyone needs to read this.
Wyoming may only have 1 member of Congress but I wouldn't trade for a dozen others. She can speak for herself. Notice who she doesn't mention.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis released the following statement regarding the inclusion of new language to uphold Judge Alan Johnson?s November 2010 ruling in the budget agreement to be voted on later this week:
?Upholding Judge Johnson?s ruling is crucial to advancing negotiations on a common sense wolf management plan. This language removes obstacles that would have otherwise hindered discussions on the status of the fully recovered gray wolf in Wyoming.
Returning management of the gray wolf to the State of Wyoming is the ultimate goal. Much work remains, but with this provision intact, I am confident we are closer than ever to realizing a full delisting. I look forward to that happy day.?
National Director of Big Game Forever, Ryan Benson, spoke on Lummis? efforts: ?Representative Lummis has been one of the most effective leaders to restore state?s rights to manage its wildlife, including balanced levels of wolves. She has strongly represented the people of the state of Wyoming throughout this Herculean effort. By ensuring that the wolf delisting language in CR did not reverse Judge Johnson?s ruling in favor of Wyoming?s wolf management plan, Rep. Lummis dramatically improved Wyoming?s ability to obtain approval of a common sense wolf management plan.?
Background: In a November 2010 ruling, Wyoming Federal District Court Judge Alan Johnson ruled that the USFWS had acted ?arbitrarily and capriciously? in rejecting Wyoming?s wolf management plan.
The FY2011 Continuing Resolution included language authored by Representative Mike Simpson (R-ID) and Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) that overturned the August 2010 district court decision in Montana to put wolves in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Utah back on the endangered species list.
In effect, the provision delists wolves in Idaho and Montana but threatened to supersede Judge Johnson?s November 2010 ruling. Repudiation of the ruling would jeopardize the progress of wolf management negotiations in Wyoming. The language Lummis successfully inserted allows for negotiation to continue without the language of the 2009 delisting rule hindering Judge Johnson?s ruling.
Congress is expected to approve the overall legislation later this week.
Washington, D.C. ? U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, made the following comments after wolf language in a budget bill was released. The new bill would not delist wolves in Wyoming, but makes clear a court ruling last fall that U.S. Fish and Wildlife was wrong to reject Wyo-ming?s wolf management plan, would not be effected by the new bill.
?Ideally Wyoming wolves should be removed from the Endangered Species list along with Montana and Idaho. But short of a regional delisting the next best scenario is ensuring that Wyoming is not disadvantaged in the future and that the favorable court decision is intact,? said Enzi.
?I will work to ensure that this issue is resolved and management of the wolves is returned to Wyoming. While the language does not go far enough in terms of delisting the wolves in Wyoming, it is another important step to protect our rights to have a plan that works for our state.? said Barrasso.
The Wyoming delegation worked with other members from the region to ensure that the language did not nullify District Judge Alan Johnson?s ruling that it was wrong for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) service to reject Wyoming?s wolf plan which includes appropriate protections for wolves throughout the state. The wolf provision is part of an appropriations bill to fund the government through September and is expected to be brought up for a vote in the Senate this week.
The delegation will continue to support Governor Mead?s efforts to work with the FWS to delist Wyoming?s wolves.
Enjoy, but notice who stepped in to ensure that Wyoming was not harmed buy the actions of a few Washington, D.C. insiders that have NEVER engaged in the Wyoming process since I have been involved (2003)