At least one judge has objected to the government's war on wildlife, particularly its decimation of cormorants. In 2016, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates of Washington, D.C. terminated the culling of double-crested cormorants across the country saying that shooting cormorants for eating fish is like shooting buffalo for eating grass. More recently, in Oregon, Wildlife Services has agreed to stop killing hundreds of beavers as it checks its compliance with the federal Endangered Species Act after Northwest Environmental Advocates threatened a lawsuit.
According to legal scholars, public lands and the animals who dwell on them are held in the public trust and belong to all of us. Why are our tax dollars used for such wanton eradication?
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