Bobo Brags About Delisting Endangered Wolves So She Can Pander To Ranchers

The gray wolf, along with the American bison and the Indigenous people who made North America their home are iconic to the American West, across this country’s vast plains, to the East and all the way up into Canada. But when our European ancestors arrived, a holocaust of epic proportions began. According to the Holocaust Museum of Houston, more than 10 million indigenous Americans were living in the Americas. But by the time 1900 rolled around, their numbers had plummeted to less than 300,000.

Even worse, for Indigenous Americans, was the rapacious slaughter of the American bison (Bison bison), which for millions of these people was their main food source. Before Europeans traveled to North America, an estimated 30 million inhabited the plains. By 1884 there were just 325 left. Through dedicated conservation efforts, their numbers have now risen to 500,000.

The gray wolf, also called the timber wolf (Canis lupus) has not fared as well as the bison. It enjoys a large range — across Eurasia, stretching into North America from the Arctic to Mexico and coast to coast. But this animal has suffered terribly in North America, especially with the nearly complete extirpation of the bison. Wolves often depend on large animals for food, and when bison were wiped out, they did what they had to do to survive — kill livestock. According to Wild Earth Guardians, these noble wild dogs were completely eradicated from all of the lower 48 states.

With the enactment of the Endangered Species Act, the gray wolf wound up being one of the first species to receive protection. The wolf was delisted in 2021, and then in a weird, kamikaze move, relisted again, in February 2022.

Lauren Boebert’s ancestors, just as mine did, comprised the flood of European settlers. Her family, like much of mine, hailed from the United Kingdom. While I’m sure there were some intelligent people in her family, poor Lauren seems to have the intelligence of warm glue.

The beleaguered Colorado Republican Congresswoman successfully spearheaded a movement to delist the wolf again because Republicans (of course) worried that since the wolves were protected, this may “disproportionately” affect farmers and ranchers by threatening their livestock, The Gazette reports.

Now here’s the thing: Just as in the other 47 states, gray wolves were extirpated in Colorado around 1940. Over the decades, lone wolves here and there have reentered the state, but their numbers have never been large. One lone wolf took up residence within the state in 2019. In 2020 a pack of wolves was found to be residing in the northwest part of Colorado. A second lone wolf has joined the pack and biologists confirmed six pups were born in June 2021. The breeding pair is considered to be the first known breeding pair in Colorado in several decades.

An additional 10 gray wolves were released in Colorado between December 18-22 in the hopes of creating a self-sustaining wolf population as part of a voter-approved initiative to re-establish gray wolves in Colorado.

Well, guess what? Bobo doesn’t care about that. But she’s cozying up ranchers and farmers. Even though, according to a Colorado Agriculture brochure, there are more than 38,000 farms and ranches in the state.

And Bobo is all chirpy about it.

“hey, y’all, another day delivering for colorado and rural america here in washington, D.C. out-of-touch denver and Boulder leftists voted to reintroduce wolves into colorado. farmers and ranchers are  powerless to defend their livestock from wolf attacks, and there have been eight confirmed wolf livestock killings in april alone this year. rather than celebrating the gray wolf recovery success story, leftists want to cower to radical environmentalists and keep them on the endangered species act list forever.”

She’s all smiles as she talks about how the passage of her “Trust The Science Act empowers states while putting people ahead of violent predators. As it should be,” she concludes.

My Trust the Science Act has passed the House!

This bill protects our ranchers and farmers across rural Colorado by finally delisting the grey wolf as an endangered species. pic.twitter.com/BxJWOz6Pbg

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 1, 2024

It’s really sad that this woman is so dumb. Humans are the most violent predators on Earth. Wolves only hunt because they have to for their survival. We murder each other all the time, and of course, Kristi Noem and her infamous puppy/goat/horse killing is still getting plenty of press.

Oh, and one last thing before I go:

According to The Colorado Sun, lawmakers created a compensation fund, offering as much as $15,000 as soon as wildlife officials have ascertained livestock or working animals were killed by wolves. Anyone who loses livestock to wolves can file a claim where they can ask for the value of the animal or the production lost due to the killing.

Bobo is struggling in her reelection efforts, so she’s obviously trying to make herself look good here. I’m convinced she couldn’t care less about farmers and ranchers. She, like the wolves who are barely hanging on in Colorado, is in a struggle for survival.

Just for fun, I’ve included this video of two gray wolf brothers frolicking in the snow. Long may they do so.