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Thursday, February 16,1995
Statute Permits Killing of Endangered Wolves
BY RICHARD PURCELL
STAFF WRITER
A recent N.C. law allowing residents of
Hyde and Washington counties to kill red
wolves under certain circumstances has
caused tensions among the state govern
ment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and environmental activists.
The law makes it legal for people to kill
a red wolf on private property if they “rea
sonably believe” that it poses a danger to
human life or property.
"The wolf just a decade ago was pretty
near extinction,” said Bill Snape, legal
counsel for Defenders ofWildlife, a Wash
ington-based environmental organization.
Although the species’ prospects for sur
vival have improved since then, Snape
said, “it is by no means safe,” adding that
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there were still only about 50 red wolves in
existence.
“The Endangered Species Act allows
an individual to protect himself or some
body else if that person in good faith be
lieves a species is going to harm them or
anyone else,” he said.
Snape said, however, that he thought
that, fiom a legal point of view, the words
“reasonably believe” used in the N.C. law
provided too large a loophole for those
wishing to kill the wolf.
“Red wolves are not a threat to human
beings,” he said. “There have been ex
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Another issue raised by the new law
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tends that the law might violate an agree
ment between it and the N.C. Wildlife
Resources Commission.
Under the agreement, the state receives
$ 118,000 every year to protect endangered
species within North Carolina. This money
might not be provided this year because of
the new law.
Randall Wilson, the section manager
for Non-Game and Endangered Wildlife
for the Wildlife Resources Commission,
said the state was still in compliance with
this agreement.
It is still in compliance because the red
wolf is classified by the federal government
as “an experimental, nonessential popula
tion, ” and falls outside ofstate jurisdiction,
he said.
“We have no authority to uphold fed
eral laws. We didn’t have jurisdiction over
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the wolves when they brought them here.
As far as we’re concerned, nothing has
changed,” Wilson said.
He said the federal government, rather
than the state, determined whether a spe
cies should be classified as “endangered"
or put in another category “based on the
status of the Species and their habitat.”
As to whether or not his agency has
spoken to federal officials about the law,
Wilson said, “We basically advised them
that this is a particularly sensitive situa
tion.”
Regardless of whether the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service suspends its annual
SIIB,OOO payment, Snape said he thought
Defenders of Wildlife was ready to take
action if the law was enforced.
“If a wolf is killed under the North
Carolina law, we will be suing the state for
having an unconstitutional law,” Snape
said.
The law is unconstitutional because it is
in violation of the Endangered Species
Act, which is a federal law, he said.
Snape said that Defenders of Wildlife
wanted to work with local property owners
as much as possible and that the survival of
the red wolf would actually help the region
through increased tourism.
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to disadvantage private land owners with
the red wolf.”
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discuss more specifically at formal meet
ings,” Touw said.
He added that board members had been
collecting information about the budget
since December and that the retreat would
provide time for administrative officials to
arrange the information and brainstorm
about the needs of the school system.
Bushnell, who will be attending her
eighth retreat, said she had always found
the retreat to be very interesting.
“I am interested in seeing what we can
do with the budget,” Bushnell said. “It is
time to put our money where our mouths
are, but we are having a hard time doing
that because we are growing so fast.”
Touw said the board would probably
discuss educational opportunities for stu
dents who excelled in school, end-of-course
test results, the school system’s own report
card and other programs concerning the
school system.
One such program concerns the recent
report by Ron Pannesi that dealt with the
business side of the school system. The
report concerned the restructuring of the
school budgets in order to give individual
schools more control over their entire bud
get, Touw said. He said the board would
also discuss the possibility of obtaining
private funding for additions to the plans
for the high school and elementary school.
“No definite decisions will be made on
whether to seek private funds. Right now,
we are just discussing plans for a report on
the feasibility of private funding.”
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FROM PAGE 1
went through, and the ballots came out the
same. He has now asked for us to consider
putting CAA on the runoff election ballot.
“We are considering it, but we haven’t
made a decision on it,” he said.
Terry Milner astonished fellow candi
dates Tuesday with a rare write-in win in
the race for Student Congress representa
tive of Dist. 1. Milner unexpectedly won
the election with the most votes.
Milner said his campaign had not been
planned in advance. He said he had chosen
to run because some fellow students had
approached him.
“It didn't start out as a planned cam
paign. I was recruited by a group of stu
dents a few weeks ago, by people who felt
that not enough people were on the ballot.
Itwasreallyagrassroots campaign,"Milner
said.
He said he was proud of the student
body for having taken it upon themselves
to elect him.
“It was an election about people taking
more affirmative steps to take part in. It
makes me feel positive that my fellow law
students took the time to write in my name.
I’m really proud of them for paying atten
tion to the election. It’s pleasant, but not
surprising,” Milner said.
Although he was elected Tuesday, he
said he already would be taking the reins as
representative next week, according to Stu
dent Congress Speaker Monica Cloud, with
whom he spoke Wednesday night.
He said Goud had told him he would
take over the vacancy left by the Student
Congress representative fiom Dist. 1 who
resigned before the election.
“I think it just means that I have to learn
a little more as I go. I don’t expect it to be
significant,” Milner said. “Just going on
COMMITTEE
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academic strengths and weaknesses.
The committee has three main short
term goals:
■ First,itwillworkwiththeUniversity’s
land-use planning consultants, Johnson,
Johnson and Roy, serving as a liaison
between the University’s departments and
the consulting firm.
■ Second, the committee will provide
the Chancellor’s Committee on University
Development with planning information
and concerns after the Bicentennial Cam
paign is over.
■ Finally, the committee will create an
initialacademicplanningdocument, which
would outline the Univeisity’s academic
goals, to be circulated and discussed
throughout the University community for
revision.
McCormick said the academic plan
ning document would not be finalized un
til the new chancellor was installed.
In addition to McCormick, committee
members include: Dr. H. Garland Hershey,
vice chancellor for health affairs; Thomas
Meyer, vice chancellor for research and
graduate studies; Wayne Jones, vice chan
cellor for business and finance; Arch Alien
111, vice chancellor for development and
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Voter Turnout
Vbter turnout decreased this year after
last turnout bitto a dowrtitend.
Turnout for 1995 totaled 3,985.
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Runoff elections will be held next
Tuesday for the fokwving races:
•Student body president
•Senior Class officers
•District 21 Student Congress
representatives
what I’ve been told, the best vote-getter
gets seated first.
“I’ve got a lot to learn. I want to concen
trate on learning the ups and downs of
student government,” he said.
Milner said he had already begun mak
ing plans for his future term in office.
“ I will take on my role and be a strong
advocate for the University and student
government,” Milner said.
McKamey said the win was unusual.
“To win that big against candidates that
are on the ballot is really rare, especially in
a graduate district. In graduate districts,
it’s difficult to get students to run.”
University relations; Edith Wiggins, in
terim vice chancellor for student affairs;
and William Graves, associate provost for
information technology.
Other members are: Thomas Gegg, pro
fessor of physics and chairman of the Fac
ulty Advisory Committee on Land Use;
Arnold Kaluzny, professor ofhealth policy
and administration; Darryl Gless, profes
sor of English and chairman of the South
ern Association of Colleges and Schools
Reaccreditation Steering Committee; Jane
Brown, professor of journalism and mass
communication and Faculty Council chair
woman; Maude Speakman, assistant dean
of the School of Nursing; Judith Wegner,
dean of the School of Law; John Stamm,
dean of the School of Dentistry and co
chairman ofthe Public Service Roundtable;
Dr. Harry Gooder, professor of microbiol
ogy and immunology; and Rachel
Windham, chairwoman of the Employee
Forum.
Student representatives are Lee Conner,
an undergraduate from Wilmington, and
Steve Hoffmann, the newly elected, presi
dent of the Graduate and Professional Stu
dent Federation.
Conner, student body co-secretary, and
Hoffmann are also members of the newly
created Chancellor’s Student Advisory
Committee.