All animals are not cuddly
By Don E. Rawlins
American Farm Bureau
Federation
Natural and Environmental
Resources Division
I’m glad that some endangered
species are extinct, when I go for a
walk in the woods, I don’t want to
be looking over my shoulder for a
saber-toothed tiger or a Tyran
nosaurus rex. I don’t relish the
idea of being a food item. I don’t
miss the hairy mammoth too much
either.
There are some species that I
would like to see extinct, like the
wood tick, the mosquito, poison
ivy, the boll weevil, coddling moth
and com ear worm. This list could
be really long if I had the patience.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Some species are classified as
endangered and some as
threatened or endangered just so
that the person making the ap-
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The Farmer’s View
plication can get his or her name
on record as “saving from ex
tinction” some plant or animal
that should be allowed to disappear
because of its inability to cope with
the presence of man and the en
vironment.
If these so-called endangered or
threatened species are really all
that valuable, then let the people
who are so concerned about it find
a controlled environment for them.
Let the instigator purchase enough
space and provide adequate care
as part of the solution. Don’t force
taxpayers to pay for what is often
pure folly.
Let’s get the endangered species
law changed so that we humans
can go about our lives, and so we
won’t become threatened.
Once man has modified the
environment, which has occurred
nearly everywhere in the U.S., he
is obligated to manage the en-
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vironment that has been modified.
This is a moral obligation, as well
as an economic obligation.
In our modified environment, for
example, man has introduced
domestic animals so that he can
better feed and clothe himself.
However, he must protect these
practically defenseless critters
from predation by “wild” animals.
Many “wild” animal predators
have adapted to man’s en
vironment and prefer to live off the
more tasty domestic livestock
rather than work hard at catching
their “normal” prey.
Coyote lovers should have to
contribute 10-18 percent of their
gross income to feed the coyotes,
because that is what western sheep
producers are forced to do. Ten to
15 percent of the lamb crop goes to
coyotes.
Traveling down some country
roads, you may become aware that
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the automobile is the new natural
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armadillo, opossum and rabbit. In
spite of this new predator, the
white-tail deer • population in the
U.S. is greater now than at any
time in history. The same is true
for the opossum, armadillo and
coyote.
The great white-tail deer herds
are large because of proper
management. The opossum and
armadillo have increased in
number because they are adap
table to man and his modified
environment. The coyote survives
because he is smart and because
misguided publicity seekers want
no control or management of
predators.
Increases or decreases in plant
and animal populations are logical
progressions of endurance,
adaptation, modification and
environment. It has been this way
since the beginning Some might
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say this is because of teleological
reasoning of species. I don’t know
about that, the only certainty I
know is that there will always be
change.
Some people have a great deal of
difficulty dealing with change.
This insecure part of our
population feels a need to turn
back the clock to avoid losing the
“good old days.”
When man attempts to reverse
time and “create,” for example,
wilderness areas, he is nostalgic,
illogical and emotionally im
mature. The wilderness advocates
should all wake up and live in this
century.
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