Bob Ream, Chairman
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission
According to the head of the commission that steers ALL wildlife management in the State of Montana, "More than 60-percent of all wolves in this state came here on their own, down from Canada."
Dr. Robert Ream has been extremely pro-wolf since before Canadian wolves were dumped into the Northern Rockies. While working with the wildlife studies at the University of Montana (Missoula), his first official pro-wolf association was the Wolf Ecology Project of 1973 - which looked at the natural "re-colonization" of wolves in Northwestern Montana. (There were, maybe, 12 - 14 wolve here then - NOW 1,000 to 1,500 in Montana.)
His dedicated push and research on that project resulted in him being asked, in 1987, to lead the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf Recovery Team - to pave the way for dumping non-native, non-endangered northern Canadian wolves into Montana, Idaho and the Yellowstone Area of Northwestern Wyoming. The "Plan" that team conceived, along with the Environmental Impact Statement sent to Congress, were riddled with flaws, poor assumptions, a few outright lies, manipulated science, and false predictions - and would be tainted further by the theft of as much as $60-million from Pitman-Robertson funds (most of which was used illegally to fund the Wolf Recovery Project).
Having pro-wolf bias Ream, as Chairman of the FWP Commission, to oversee control/management of wolves in Montana is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. His negative influence over wildlife managers within MT FWP has resulted in reported wolf numbers being purposely kept low, along with the degree of devastation wolves have been dealing wildlife resources - to keep from alarming an unknowing public, which still trusted the state's wildlife agency to do the right things. The lies and deceit that came down to those at work on the ground level from upper FWP management and the FWP Commission has now caught up with them. In just 16 years, wolves in many areas of the state have destroyed once great elk herds, have completely eliminated moose populations where they once were plentiful, with deer and other big game populations now crashing just as precipitously. And the almighty architect of this ecological disaster is none other than wolf-loving MT FWP Commission Chairman...Dr. Robert Ream.
