Thread by @_cingraham

This spring the USDA killed 8 wolf pups in their den in Idaho to "protect livestock." There are over 2 million cattle in Idaho, and fewer than 1,500 wolves.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1447559793447776264

This is possible in part because the Biden administration has refused to reinstate federal protections for wolves that were removed, against the advice of biologists and wildlife scientists, under Trump.

The ranchers demanding these killings are almost certainly multi-millionaires - the typical net worth of a family cattle rancher in 2019 was $3.7 million thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/wolf-hunters…

So in essence you've got the federal government, on the taxpayer dime, killing endangered animals solely to protect the business interests of a handful of Idaho millionaires.

Here's the letter from a Biden administration official, dated October 1 *of this year*, defending these killings. It's written on behalf of @SecVilsack. wildlifecoexistence.org/wp-content/upl…

.@POTUS talked wolves on a popular YouTube show in May.
Host: Wolves “need protections more than ever!”
Biden: “I’m in! I’m in with you."
Instead, the administration went to court in August to defend the Trump-era removal of federal wolf protections.
thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/biden-admini…