BOISE, Idaho (Enviro Snowflake Brief). Three-time elected Governor Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is doing his part to suppress Idaho’s future generations of the conservation movement to protect the state’s wild places and predators.
In a bold move, the Governor has ceased all school and public library copies of renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. It is one of the cornerstones of modern conservation science, policy, and ethics.
“I will host a book burning ceremony my last month in office to honor and protect Idaho’s true values of those who matter. My special guest, Jerald Raymond, Chairman of the Cattleman Association will light up the first stack,” read Otter’s internal email to his Agriculture lobbyists.
Republican state Senator Brad Little, who won his party’s gubernatorial primary, told local Boise’s Fox 9 Now, “if the liberal snowflakes want to fight us on this action, we will set in motion a Reappropriation bill to defund more K-6th education programs and increase the state’s 2018 $400,000 Wolf Control Board budget.”
Governor Otter echoed the Senator’s defensive tone, “Idaho Republicans feel education is the #1 enemy to our ranchers, and erasing nonsense that Leopold teaches helps protect our state’s voters who matter.”
