‘Kids Have To Sit In Cages At Bus Stops’: Doug LaMalfa Warns Of California's Rising Gray Wolf Population

In House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) spoke about the introduction of a gray wolf population in northeast California.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, Northeast California, as in other parts of the country, we're seeing an introduction

00:06of a wolf population is devastating, not only to the beef industry and the at least 200 spring

00:14calves, but also to the rest of the wildlife in the neighborhood. Places like Sierra County,

00:19Siskiyou County, Modoc County, Lassen County, Plumas County are being devastated by this

00:25introduction of the gray wolf. Now, this is somehow dressed up under the idea that it's

00:30endangered, yet there's been long sought the delisting of the gray wolf in the United States

00:36where you can find tens of thousands of them in upper Midwest states and lower Canada. So why is

00:42it that we have the logic that they have to have one in each county in each state to somehow be

00:47seen as not endangered anymore? They're indigenous to a particular area. They do not need to be

00:52introduced and devastating the landscape, devastating the people where kids have to sit in cages

00:59at bus stops in order to be safe. Just recently, an elk was chased right up onto a front porch

01:04of a constituent here in Northern California and killed and partially devoured right on the

01:09property, right next to the building there. So does this mean that we're getting a better

01:14quality environment because of that? Does that mean that we're getting public safety? No, it's

01:18getting worse. I yield back. The gentleman yields back.