I want to say thank you for coming on this forum. I would assume it is a bit like a gazelle trotting into the lion's den. I also assume that you knew that your comments here would be viewed with great scrutiny and that your motives, intelligence, and ethics would be questioned, yet you showed up anyway. So again, thank you.

I think despite the tongue lashing you have received, all of us acknowledge that it's not the easiest thing in the world to do to walk into a situation, SOLO I might add, and try to share information that is unpopular, and/or take part in a discussion when you have a tie to an unpopular organization. I honestly appreciate your courage and confidence and my level of respect for you has grown immensely.

We can only hope that others within the organizations falling under the Dept of the Interior will be as receptive to the criticisms of those organizations as you have been.

The biggest thing I've taken away from your contributions to this thread is that you are not in favor of the proposed legislation. This gives me hope that not every person working within the DOI isn't on board with the agenda of Senator Nelson and Secretary Salazar. My question though is this, why aren't you in favor of it? Is it because you do not believe measures to restrict interstate transport will have any effect on wild populations, or because you don't want the lawmakers overstepping their bounds? I suppose another way to ask this is, would you be supportive of the USFWS listing these animals as injurious (same effect, different means)?

Thanks again for coming here. Even if the forum users here won't admit it (although I'm sure they would), they do appreciate having a representative of the organizations we're pretty pissed off at here as a sounding board, and available to answer questions when you're permitted.

jb
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