WASHINGTON D.C. (Enviro Snowflake Brief- Not Real News)— Fish & Wildlife Director nominee, Aurelia Skipwith, says she is coming into the job inspired to prove “extinction is overrated.”
Skipwith said she hoped “to lead the service in achieving a conservation legacy of extinction beginning with grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Area, and gray wolves across the continental U.S.”
Fish & Wildlife Director nominee, Aurelia Skipwith, explained, “she is confident her experience working in the ag industry as an attorney provides strengths to assure extinction of annoying wildlife that can’t seem to make it on their own without the courts defending the Endangered Species Act.”
Secretary of Interior, David Bernhardt, grinned with pride as Skipworth spoke in Denver at an extraction industry symposium, Let’s Exploit America’s Public Lands event.
Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of the Western Values Project, said Skipwith’s “résumé is surprisingly scant for someone that would be charged with managing America’s fish and wildlife”. A similar sentiment was hollered across the conservation community.
In Bernhardt’s brief introduction of Skipwith at the event, he said, “President Trump has created a new vision for our public lands out West that will redefine the negative connotation around ‘extinction’ to mean eliminating obstacles.”
Sec. Bernhardt added, “Aurelia knows the ag industry and I know the extraction industry so who better to run point on managing our Fish & Wildlife obstacles for our oil, gas, coal, and our beloved public lands ranchers.”
Erik Molvar, the Executive Director at Western Watershed Project released a statement on Skipworth’s nomination saying, “Hurry up 2020 elections… the Courts can’t save us forever and the house is burning down and can’t be rebuilt.”
