"The Obama administration has been retreating from endangered species conservation in recent years"............This is espcially true as it relates to the Red Wolf restoration program that has been put under review by the USFW Service............."This Agency under Obama has quietly eliminated the position of the red wolf recovery coordinator".............. "All the signs point toward a U.S. FWS that lacks the guts or the enthusiasm to fight any more for the sake of controversial species".........." The red wolf is a challenging species to recover"............... "But the United States is the most powerful and innovative nation-state in the history of the world, and it didn’t use to be our practice to just roll over when the going got tough"................. "We can afford to rise up to the social, financial and technical hurdles associated with bringing back the red wolf, even in the face of substantial interference from the wolf’s adaptable and fecund sister species, the coyote"............... "By doing so, we will restore much-needed ecological balance to our eastern forests, which in many areas are suffering great damage from overabundant deer and raccoon populations"-----Ron Sutherland, Ph.D., of Durham is a conservation scientist for the Wildlands Network.

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Red wolf debacle 

shows US Fish

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Service missing 

spine

Ron Sutherland, Ph.D., of Durham is a conservation
 scientist for the Wildlands Network.

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