“It is intolerable that agencies entrusted with enforcing our laws are themselves wantonly violating them…”

Conservation groups cheered when a federal judge ruled last month that the Forest Service and Idaho Department of Fish and Game violated federal law by landing helicopters in an Idaho wilderness area to attach tracking collars to elk and wolves. The court also ordered the data gathered through these illegal activities destroyed. The now-halted project gives every appearance of an unscientific witch hunt, tailor-made to scapegoat wolf predation as the cause of elk population declines and to justify a wolf-killing program in wilderness.

Source: Idaho Helicopter Ruling a Victory for Wilderness, Wildlife | Straight from the Horse’s Heart