Dear Mrs. Hornaday,
In our opinion wolves should not be delisted as proposed per Rule FWS–HQ–ES–2013–0073
The proposed Rule does not take into account "costs" and "benefits" but is based "solely on scientific and commercial(!) information" which seems very contradictory!
All life, be it plant, animal or human should have value, other than monetary, yet that’s all that seems to count; the money. We can “calculate” the value of an old solitary oak tree or a black rhino in the wild. However, looking beyond that, seeing that tree as a minute piece of the all-encompassing puzzle named Earth, more often than not we fail to do!
Wolves – like all creatures – are an integral part of the ecology. Take away too many stones from a foundation and that building comes tumbling down, take away the top level predators and your ecology will change.
