Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Quit damaging tourism

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    Idaho is a great place to visit. This fact has made tourism a major part of the state’s economy. The state and our amazing destination communities spend millions to market our assets to visitors only to see some residents and government officials periodically manage to shred those millions in the name of some kind of misbegotten belief.
    Worst of all, they don’t tarnish the state’s reputation for just an instant—they drag it out, which inflicts maximum damage on marketing efforts.
    A group in Salmon has proposed an expanded wolf-and-coyote hunting “derby” on lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The BLM is now sifting through 38,000 comments on the proposal. Last winter, the same group held the derby on both private land and public land managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Apparently, that wasn’t enough acreage for the group that bagged 21 coyotes and not a single wolf.
    Hunting predators is one thing. Hunting is legal and necessary when predators or other wildlife, including elk and deer, become too numerous. However, the ancient art practiced by good hunters and the dignity of their prey are tarnished by undignified enterprises like the derby.
    It gives hunters and Idaho a bad name. That’s not good for the recreation business—or any other for that matter.
    Who wants to visit a state full of blood-thirsty wolf and coyote haters where there’s not a deer or elk to be seen—the picture painted by events like the derby.
    It’s time Idahoans, including Gov. Butch Otter, who led the rest of the nation to believe incorrectly that that wolves had decimated the state’s elk herds, to think before they take action that backfires, carelessly inflicts damage upon the recreation industry that employs thousands of Idahoans, or reduces the millions of public dollars spent on marketing to green shreds.

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