Letters to the editor Feb. 9

Non-native species

Well readers, more wasted tax dollars on killing mountain goats in the Grand Tetons. Yes, they are eradicating all of them. Why? They are non-native species that is interfering with bighorn sheep habitat. Really? Yup, they are shooting them from helicopters and “wanton waste” as they leave them where they are killed.

So when are they going to kill all the wolves they planted? Yes, the wolves are a non-native species as well. They are not the same as wolves from years ago. So open the season for all hunters to assist in eradicating the wolves. Wolves have done devastating damage to deer, elk, moose, elk and many small species also. Now send a bill to the wolf lovers who started this foolish reintroduction. Perhaps we need to remove state and federal fish and game employees who are not a “native species” as well? Yes, the real employees of years ago who were working for everyone and not just the tree huggers.

Time to get to the phone and call the feds to stop. Now write letters. Remember that many lakes are also filled with non-native trout. Where does the foolishness stop?

—Ron Albrecht, Kalispell

Majestic animals

In October 2019 the Daily Inter Lake thankfully published the announced retirement of Chip Weber, Flathead National Forest supervisor. Weber’s leaving fortunately followed those of Kate Kendall, U.S. Geological Survey, and Chris Servheen, of the Fish & Wildlife Service. The grizzly bears are better off for them all going away, as also are we devoted saviors of these majestic animals deserving of surviving on Earth.

Now I call for the resignation of Martha Williams and Cecily Costello and Jennifer Strickland and Jim Williams from Fish and Wildlife agencies in order to protect grizzly bears from the threat of continuing high mortality rates they choose to trivialize from their positions on Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem subcommittee and International Grizzly Bear Committee. Even as they somehow, while government employees, get the Inter Lake to publish news stories featuring them and publishing their own opinion article in December 2019 touting fictitious exploits and covering up actual misdeeds.

As for “moderate Republican” Governor Steve Bullock, who runs a sham and gets elected as a Democrat, he has been eliminated from future higher office politics, finally, by people like me who are dedicated and worked vigorously to inform the American public about his contemptuous organization of a fake grizzly bear advisory council answering to him, which pretends to look out for grizzly bears but does not, which exposes Bullock as unfit to govern. I no longer need to ask him to resign, as he will thankfully be gone from office very soon. The money-spending visiting tourists who are major contributors to our economy and want to see grizzly bears in their natural habitat, rather than compete with “wreckreational” and logging Montanans for that space, will love that.

Donald Trump would be proud of them all mentioned here. His lies are pervasive.

However, it is time to reject anti-conservation Republican-oriented employees in government affecting wildlife and replace them with people who are compassionate toward animals.

—Bill Baum, Whitefish

Large predators

Thank you Warren Illi for putting into print, (Jan. 30) the concerns of many valley residents. Most folks living in Northwest Montana appreciate the wildlife, but that does not mean that these animals should have greater freedom in our yards and neighborhoods than we humans. Devastating and long-lasting impact to both wildlife and people are unavoidable when large predators are tolerated in developed areas.

—Lisa Paullin, Kalispell

Kind person

I would like to thank the kind person who took the time to take my red change purse in and leave it at the West Valley School office.

I had attended the community exercise class at the school and did not know I lost the little coin case until I got home. Since it was snowing and now dark, I knew I would not be able to find it. Only thing in it - my driver’s license. Needless to say, I was upset. I decided to call the school the next morning and, to my relief, was told someone had put it on the counter outside the office.

Thank you very much, kind person, for taking the time to do so.

—Anna Marie Scarlett, Kalispell