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Show rSatSunMonTues, October 25-28, 2003 The Park Record B-15 iWblf Awareness "Week celebrates delisting By EMMA SUAREZ Pacific Legal Foundation i As America celebrates the cause of Wolf Awareness this week, we should be popping the .1 collective champagne cork and ; proclaiming victory in the proliferation prolif-eration of a species that was on the brink of extinction. r However, it is doubtful that the eco-pessimists among us will , be making merry. Instead, in usual fashion, they will use Wolf . Awareness Week to bombard us with adorable pictures of wolf . pups in need of expanded , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , protections, attempting to force the idea that without continued stringent regulatory protections and land use controls on private ,. property, this majestic species . will be a thing of the past. ',; Americans would be better , served to. understand that the i, popular cause of wolf protection is less about wolves than it is 1(aboijt filling the coffers of eco-activist groups promoting gov-,,ernment gov-,,ernment controrof private property. prop-erty. Gray wolves were re-intro-rduced in Idaho, Montana and j. Wyoming beginning in 1994. Their numbers have proliferated ,so significantly throughout the West in the years since that the species is no longer considered anywhere near being in danger of extinction. Yet landowners, ranchers and farmers in fact, entire communities continue to be held hostage under the ESA. Land set aside by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) known as critical habitat supposedly to help the wolves recover is no longer necessary, yet the FWS continues to keep the designations in place causing financial hardship for people throughout the West. Earlier this year, FWS finished fin-ished a mandated review of what protections, if any, the gray wolf still needed. FWS concluded that while certain gray wolf populations popula-tions merited some minimal level of government protection under the ESA, most did not. According to FWS, "currently designated critical habitat played a negligible role in wolf recovery" recov-ery" because "gray wolves are habitat generalists, and their numbers and range are not limited limit-ed by a lack of suitable habitat or by any degradation of any essential essen-tial habitat features." In other words. Nomadic predator animals, like wolves, are not dependent on set-aside lands as habitat, but easily adapt to changes in habitat as long as a food supply is available. Wolf Awareness Week is perhaps per-haps one of the best times to consider the next logical questions: ques-tions: If the habitat area designated desig-nated by FWS is not critical to the gray wolf's survival, then why is it still being designated as "critical?" Wouldn't FWS' own analysis lead it to conclude that the onerous burden it places on private property prop-erty is no longer needed? Apparently not, because, unex-plainably, unex-plainably, thousands of square miles of such property in dozens of states remain designated as critical habitat. Unfortunately, this lack of logic has not only permeated the FVV.S, but some of our courts as well. Bent on enforcing feelgood feel-good environmental laws, some judges have reasoned that the ESA requires that FWS "shall designate critical habitat" at the time of listing a species. What these judges sometimes ignore is the other part of what the law says-that critical habitat shall be designated "to the maximum maxi-mum extent prudent and determinable." deter-minable." This begs the follow-up question: ques-tion: How can FWS "prudently" determine critical habitat for the wolf when it already knows that such habitat plays no meaningful role in the wolf's increased numbers? num-bers? The answer lies less in the benefit to wolves and more in the power associated with controlling control-ling land use. Unneeded wolf critical habitat has shut down private property use and limited people's ability to manage their land, adding regulatory reg-ulatory costs and forcing housing prices to rise. People are kept off of beaches and out of National Parks. Are we celebrating yet? This week should be one that helps people understand the positive pos-itive facts regarding the gray wolf's proliferation and the agenda agen-da of the hardcore environmental environmen-tal organizations that continue to "market" the wolf's need for ESA protection. A truly remarkable Wolf Awareness Week would help Americans to understand how these eco-activist organizations abuse the ESA to advance their "species first, people last" agenda. agen-da. Emma Suarez is an Attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. For 30 years, PLF has advocated for common sense and balance in the implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Warm weather delays Colorado ski season . DENVER (AP) Colorado skiers and snowboarders are going ; to have to wait a bit to hit the slopes because of unusually warm v. weather. Most years, Loveland or 0 Keystone would be open by mid-; mid-; October. This year, the battle to be : the first area to open is between Loveland. and Arapahoe Basin and November will be just around .thc corner when it ends, j', Loveland, often the first resort jn the state to open, began making t-snow Oct. 6 and covered most of 1 one run from top to bottom before warm weather began melting J some .of it this week. J J For two days it was too warm to jeven make snow, spokeswoman IjAinsley Kasten said. "We are not going to just open to open. We want to be able to deliver a high-quality run." she said. The area needs a one- to two-foot two-foot base to open and a trail at least 100 feet wide. Arapahoe Basin had planned to open Friday but that is unlike-ly. unlike-ly. "Right now we are on a day-today basis. We only need a few more nights of snowmaking," spokeswoman Leigh Hierholzer said. With Vail Resorts selling hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of discounted passes, Keystone dropped out of the race to be first to open, avoiding avoid-ing the potential for huge crowds on a handful of runs. Copper Mountain, which hopes to open Nov. 1. has been making snow, as has Winter Park, which is scheduled to open Nov. 12. Copper Mountain will open a run to racers from several national nation-al teams Friday, but the public will have, to wait. Much colder temperatures are predicted for the weekend and that could help the resorts. Snowmakers need at least two days of temperatures in the mid-20s mid-20s to finish covering runs. The forecast for the next 14 days calls for nearly normal temperatures tem-peratures and precipitation. Park www.parkrecord.com www.parkrecord.com 'n-,..MUn'V:ARVAS" I I ;,sv EMamonJ KRKE ".PARKING S A SINCEVX' 1922 I r coupon y i Q VI Q J Day EVERY7TH DAY FREE I IT i aeii I 24 HR. SHUTTLE SAFE II SECURE FAST. FRIENDLY SERVICE j- 50 S. 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