Idaho's Wolves' Conflicts With Public Lands Ranching
To Be Featured on ABC News Special Report:
In Search of America with Peter Jennings on September 3, 2002.

Earlier this year ABC News sent a television crew to Idaho to cover the
conflict between wolf reintroduction and ranching to use as a current
example of the historic tension between the states and the federal
government in the American form of government. The result will be broadcast
across the country as the first one hour segment of Peter Jenning's "In
Search of America" series.

The wolf segment will run Tuesday September 3, 2002 on ABC television at
9:00
P.M. according to my local TV guide.  Check your local listing.

For more information check out the ABC web site at this URL:

http://abcnews.go.com/America/etc/tv.html

Here is the ABC summary of the hour long program:

Episode One: "Call of the Wild"

"An Idaho community resists the power of the federal government in a battle
over who controls their land. America is the most powerful country in the
world but has always struggled with how to exercise power over its own
people."

America's revolutionary generation was deeply fearful of the power of
central government. The argument over states' rights versus federal power
was the most heated battle among the founding fathers. Even today nearly
every politician running for federal office seems to be running "against"
Washington.

In Idaho, where mistrust of federal power often runs high, that profound
skepticism has turned to anger and fear since the federal government
mandated the return of the legendary gray wolf.

Between 1995 and 1997 under the authority of the Endangered Species Ac, 35
wolves were let loose in Idaho. Now there are at least 250 wolves in the
state, and the population is growing. For Idaho's ranchers the
reintroduction of wolves is seen as sentimental idiocy that threatens
livestock, human beings and their way of life. For conservationists it is
the federal government looking to the future and preserving a natural
treasure, the government doing what it is supposed to do - protecting the
whole nation from the narrow interests of a
few."

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