Moratorium spawns wolf-lovers’ nightmare

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

By PJH Staff

JACKSON HOLE, WYO. – Developer James Reinhurt wasted no time after learning his proposed Whippoorwill Pines project was dead in the water after county commissioners voted to impose a moratorium on all large-scale developments in the county, including his. The Chicago entrepreneur immediately announced his intention to convert the 288-acre property into a wolf hunting preserve.

“Those NIMBY namby-pambies don’t want to displace wildlife for actual, beneficial workforce housing?” Reinhurt said. “Well, all I have to say is, be careful what you wish for.”

Reinhurt has approached the Wyoming Game and Fish Department with the plan to offer unlimited hunting on his new meadow development: Lazy Lupus Ranch. Reinhurt’s attorney, Robbing Leaving, said they were close to finalizing an agreement with Game and Fish that would lift the ‘trophy’ designation of the wolf within the boundaries of the Lazy Lupus.

“Wolf hunters and haters will be able to blast away all day and all night,” Leaving said.
Lazy Lupus hopes to open by late September, offering a special half-price deal for Sublette County residents, which will include transportation, lodging and complementary rental of night-vision goggles. Reinhurt said it has always been his dream to bring to Jackson Hole a land development that fit the community, while keeping with the valley’s western heritage.

“It was the old pioneers’ dream to homestead here in Jackson Hole, raise cattle and wipe out the wolf,” Reinhurt said. “If I am disallowed the chance to make the dream of owning your own soddy come true for people, I can at least help modern day settlers realize the other great Wyoming hope: to see the wolf eradicated.”

County commissioner Pill Baddleford said it was deplorable what Reinhurt was attempting to do. “He just went from being public enemy number one in the ‘letters to the editor department’ to a front-page outlaw,” he said. “The last thing this county needs is more affordable housing and those Pinedale rednecks coming up here with their oily boots, shooting up the place.”

If Reinhurt’s proposed preserve goes through, it could pave the way for even more wildlife hunting. Preliminary long-term plans include a purchase of the nearby elk feeding grounds. According to Reinhurt, by 2010, Jackson hunters could be enjoying a two-for-one special on his ranch by gunning down a wolf and the elk it was chasing.
“God, it’s great to be a red-blooded American with money,” said Reinhurt as he thumbed another shell into his Winchester and gazed off into the setting sun.
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