“Science is supposed to be the fundamental principle of managing endangered species,” said Mike Leahy, a senior director of the National Wildlife Federation. “It’s getting increasingly overruled by politics. This is every wildlife conservationist’s worst nightmare.”

After years of following the debacle that Grizzly and Wolf recovery has turned into it’s quite clear that people like Mike Leahy are only interested in doing that insofar as it gets them what they want. They’ll toss “science” right into a trash compactor the instant that they don’t agree with it.

The ESA is fantastic and it very much needs to remain law but people like Mr. Leahy need to recognize that it is not nor should it be unlimited.