Endangered no more

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

It seems that people can, sometimes, do the right thing. It was announced today by the Department of the Interior that the Great Lakes gray wolves are no longer endangered. This is big news, it proves that with the right management people and animals can share this earth and everyone can get along.

Pretty much my whole life I have heard about the destruction that we humans are causing to this planet. We are destroying it with pollution, too much garbage, too much smog, too much waste. The icecaps are melting, the air will never be clean, the crap we put into the oceans will eventually kill everyone and everything. It also has been a fairly common theme throughout my life that no one is really doing anything about it. The governments argue if any problems actually exist. People use and consume with little regard or care for each other or for the future. Recycling fades come and go like fashion statements. Solar power, electric cars or wind farms have yet to yield any tangible results. I guess the occasional Greenpeace guy on a raft yelling at some polluter or helping to clean some birds is about the best I have learned to expect.
My daughter is going to begin to realize things about the world outside of her immediate family and her home in a few years. It is scary to think that some of the things that we take for granted today may be distant memories by the time she is my age. Things like clean air and water. Things like food free of disease, chemicals and pesticides. Things like wild animals, trees, grass, bugs and flowers.
Returning this small group of wolves probably won't affect my daughter directly. Most likely she never will see a great lakes gray wolf. It's just nice to know that some people, somewhere put the time and effort in to make sure she can see one if she wants to.