Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News FACTOR tv show would call the Arizona Landowners "PINHEADS" for this satirical petitioning of the USFW Service to release wolves into Central Park in NYC..................I think that Western residents should be working right alongside Easterners in getting wolves back on the ground in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania New York State and the Southern Appalachians.........Just as Easterners should be helping their Western Countrymen establish a sustainable wolf population in Arizona and New Mexico.............Pinheads or Patriots these Arizona knuckleheads?

Wolves proposed to be released in New York City's Central Park

by Hugh Holub

 A group of Arizona landowners announced today that they will petition the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USF&W) for permission to release a pack of wolves in New York's Central Park.

"There is convincing evidence that wolves once lived on Manhattan Island prior to European settlement," said Clem Lobo, a spokesman for the Arizona landowners. The petition requests that the Interior Department issue a rule authorizing the release of  wolves in and around Central Park, an area unoccupied by wolves but part of their historic range.

"Since the Endangered Species Act sort of mandates the federal government restore critters to their former habitat, we think Central Park needs its wolf population back," Lobo added. Lobo pointed out that Mexican grey wolves were being released in eastern Arizona pursuant to the Endangered Species Act to restore historic wolf populations in that part of the country.

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The Arizona wolf release program has been very unpopular with area ranchers, for obvious reasons.
"Eastern environmentalists are always trying to remake the West in their own fantasy image," noted Lobo, "like the nutty scheme to dynamite Glen Canyon Dam so endangered fish can be restored to the Colorado River. So we thought it only fair that the restoration of the endangered wolf population should be brought right to folks living in Manhattan."

The Central Park Wolf Release Program would be financed by People to Keep Easterners Out Of The West. "Actually, we think US taxpayers ought to fund the wolf release program in Central Park they way they fund all these schemes to repopulate our part of the country with wolves and jaguars and whatever," added Lobo, "but obviously the federal government's endangered species program is aimed at ranchers in the West and not people who live at 59th and Park Avenue." Lobo proposes to initially release 12 wolves in the New York City park. New Yorkers were obviously upset about the proposed release of a wolf pack in Central Park.

"The park is already dangerous enough, without political opponents and vicious man-eating beasts roaming about," complained a spokesman for the New York City Mayor's office. Other New Yorkers thought the release of the wolves would improve the park. " If those wolves eat a few muggers and drug dealers, the park might actually be safer at night," commented Sam Strapani, a cab driver we found at the south end of the park. If the wolf release program is successful, announced Lobo, plans are being made to restore Manhattan Island to its pre-European settlement habitat. "This would require leveling all the buildings on the island," noted Lobo, "which would greatly improve the habitat for all kinds of plants and animals like squirrels."

Interestingly, Lobo's proposal to release the wolves and remove human use of the island is exactly consistent with how the federal Endangered Species Act is being implemented in the West noted Joe Sam, a biologist from the General Delivery University. "It is being argued virtually every day in law suits from various environmental groups that the human occupation of the West is in conflict with hundreds of endangered plants and animals, and that the federal government must restore the endangered species and kick people off the western public lands," added Sam.

"The Endangered Species Act is also being used by various  environmental groups to block virtually every kinds of human land use in the West like renewable solar energy projects, natural gas pipeline construction, homebuilding, mining, and road construction, " said Sam.

"The proposal to put wolves in Central Park is just a way to make the point that while most people think saving endangered critters is wonderful, they have no clue how that law is really being used in the war between environmentalists and western residents," noted Sam. Lobo added that if the Central Park wolf release is successful, his group plans to release wolves in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Park.
"I'd love residents of eastern cities to hear the howl of wolves at night," said Lobo.