Idaho’s largest newspaper has this editorial this morning.
Our View: Otter should tone down wolf rhetoric. Idaho Statesman.
Note added on January 14, 2007. Although the link above has expired, it turns out that the Statesman was absolutely correct in its worries.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
Otter’s election to governor is Idaho’s worst nightmare. This guy cares less about the environment than the Bush administration.