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This has got to be the silliest thing I have ever heard. Wolves are good in low numbers. Or at least in appropriate numbers for their surroundings.

And it sounds like they are killing off the a Caribou herd that rural Alaskans on this island depend on for food.

So, control the wolves. Get their numbers down to what should be appropriate for the number of caribou.

Is it really that difficult?

A federal judge on Monday denied the state of Alaska’s request for a preliminary injunction to kill wolves, a step it said was needed to protect a caribou herd on an island in the Aleutian chain that is a subsistence food source for rural Alaskans there.

U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland said that while sympathetic to the state’s argument, he had to abide by law when ruling against the state’s request to immediately conduct predator control in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on Unimak Island.

“Somebody’s governmental pride will be bruised here and there is no avoiding that,” Holland said, before ruling in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“It is the federal agency’s prerogative to decide what they have decided.”

The state argued that without emergency intervention, the Unimak Island caribou herd — the only island caribou herd in the United States — will continue to decline and die out if nothing is done.

But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argued it is bound by certain environmental laws that must be considered, and that takes time. In the meantime, it said it has been working with the state on the problem of the declining herd.

The federal agency late Monday announced it would allow the state to relocate 20 bull caribou from another herd off the island to Unimak in hopes it would lead to better calf production in future years.

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Good for that judge. How ridiculous is that students couldn’t bring empty holsters for a empty holster protest.

Does that mean an empty holster can’t be worn at any time? An empty holster is just a ……. an accessory.

Oh well. Glad they won……

A federal judge has ruled the First Amendment Rights of two Tarrant County College students were violated when the community college prohibited their attempts to stage an empty holster protests last fall. The two students, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against TCC.

The two students, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against TCC. The protests were advocating a change in state law to allow licensed concealed handgun owners to bring their guns on to campus. But the lawsuit and subsequent trial were viewed as a debate over free speech rather than gun rights.

“We’re really pleased with Judge Mean’s opinion,” said ACLU attorney Lisa Graybill. “The ruling permanently enjoins Ms. Hadley from stopping these protests. They’re going to be able to wear their holsters in the classroom.”

A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers’ request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.Conyers suggested she was the victim of “badgering” last summer when she acknowledged a conspiracy to take bribes for her support of a Houston company seeking a sludge

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been arraigned on a probation violation and released on a $10,000 personal bond pending another hearing.A Wayne County Circuit Court judge entered a not guilty plea on Kilpatrick’s behalf on Tuesday.The judge ordered Kilpatrick to stay in Michigan until Thursday’s hearing, when he rules on a defense motion

A Michigan judge has ordered a stay-at-home mom to attend a murder trial and serve 24 hours in jail because she arrived late for jury selection.Carmela Khury was released Monday after a day and a half as a spectator in Oakland County Circuit court.The State Court Administrative Office told Judge Leo Bowman he had no authority to punish Khury and

AP – A Haitian judge says he will likely order the release of the last two Americans detained for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake.