HELENA, MONTANA (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt met with Montana officials and ranchers today to propose President Donald J. Trump’s solution to rid Montana ranchers of the anxiety and death grizzlies are causing Montana’s public land grazing livestock.
The Trump Wall of Yellowstone is an ambitious executive order consideration President Trump is floating to Montana politicians and ranchers. The executive order would authorize building an impenetrable wildlife wall along the Yellowstone National Park northern borders in order to prevent park grizzlies from dispersing outside the park in Montana.
Bernhardt, while flanked by USFWS Director Aurelia Skipwith, Montana U.S. House member and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte, and Wildlife Services Montana Director John Steuber, told the media gathering, “This Administration realizes Montana ranchers deserve all the protection from grizzlies the federal government can give them since they pay us $1.35/acre for every month that cow grazes on public lands.”
A White House anonymous staffer explained that Trump was furious to learn that grizzlies actually occationally kill livestock on public lands, and he is baffled that the states have not been able to train the bears to only eat wild prey. “Pence trained his rabbit to stop having sex, but we can’t even teach these bears to lay off the steak,” President Trump was heard telling staffers.
“No one told Trump Pence’s rabbit lives in a cage alone,” stated the frustrated source.
Sec. Bernhardt assured Montana ranchers that The Trump Wall of Yellowstone will be packaged with additional federal dollars to fund Wildlife Services, the federal wildlife killing machine, to focus on extirpating bears outside the park within 100 miles of any cattle grazing on allotted public lands.
For perspective on the rancher’s concern, consider that grizzlies are responsible for a staggering one-tenth of one percent of cow/calf losses.
Bernhardt introduced USFWS Director Aurelia Skipwith to explain how The Trump Wall of Yellowstone will enable the agency to dodge the Endangered Species Act, under which Yellowstone grizzlies are still protected.
“It’s called ‘executive order,’ and our President knows how to use it and how to stall the courts while we BUILD THAT WALL,” stated the Trump loyalist former Monsanto attorney.
Rep. Gianforte says he’s happy with Bernhardt’s proposal to protect Montana’s sacred cows, and says, “I will literally punch anyone in the face, if they are half my size, who disagrees with it.”
There were no details shared on how the wall will be paid for, but the biggest ranchers in Montana left the meeting happy with the plan, but many did ask Sec. Bernhardt to also work on lowering that staggering $1.35/acre grazing fee on our beautiful public lands.
The initial read from our sources in the White House on funding The Trump Wall of Yellowstone, is to creatively tap into the estimated $35 million tourist dollars per year wolves and grizzlies bring to Yellowstone National Park communities.
