Fund roads, education instead of habitat fight

Our elected county commissioners have taken it upon themselves to use $10,000 of our county tax money to complain about the proposed federal protection of the woodland caribou on federal land, and evidently to also use the county legal counsel’s time (more county money) in pursuit of this effort. They have complained there are too many wolves and now too few caribou to warrant protection. I suppose if we kill enough wolves then there will also be too few wolves to protect as well.

Whatever the commissioners’ motivations and reasoning, it does not serve the broader population of county citizens. In this time of tight money for the county, I am far from alone in questioning the use of our tax money for this purpose when other areas of need, two of many being education and roads, are constantly shorted. I am surprised that a fiscally conservative board would make this decision.

JIM DuBUISSON

Sandpoint