Wolf recovery in the lower 48 states is in jeopardy.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to remove protections for wolves across the lower 48 states – despite the fact that wolves have only just begun to recover in large portions of their former range, including the Pacific Northwest, California, southern Rocky Mountains and Northeast.
Gray wolves once roamed the vast majority of the country, but were nearly wiped out by government extermination programs. Their recovery in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes has been a success, but the job of returning wolves to the American landscape is still far from complete.
Right now members of Congress are ready to step in. Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) are circulating a letter to the Service opposing the premature removal of wolf protections.U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has already signed on as a lead co-signatory.
Please call your member of Congress at (202) 224-3121. Urge him or her to save wolves by signing onto Reps. DeFazio, Markey and Grijalva’s letter; then get more information and take action by clicking HERE
Please stop killing ad tortuning GOD’ CREATURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please stop the killing of wolves. Wolves have a place in the circle of life and keep our ecosystem in check. Our society has become perverse in its compulsion to kill in the name of the almighty dollar in what they refer to as “hunting game”. Do not wait until it is too late. Man has totally destroyed the balance of nature in the name of so called Co.servation.
It is useless to call Montana, Wyoming, Idaho legislators. Wolf salvation will have to come from outside these states. You are talking to your shoelaces here in Montana. It is a very red, yokel, redneck, sportsmen, redneck wildlife agency, rancher dominated state. That is the essence of de-listing the wolf and turning their survival back into the hands of traditional wolf and predator haters, and that includes the state wildlife agencies with a long tradition of marginalizing or eliminating predators in the belief that they were bolstering ungulate herds so they could kill them in sporting fashion. We have to do what we get to get national attention and apply pressure from the outside. It was Senators Tester and Baucus and Simpson from ID who attached a rider to a must have budget bill to politically de-list and politically manage wolves. Riders are ways to get stinky legislation past the nose of scrutiny.
Wolf killing in Montana and other states has gotten entirely out of hand. The wolf should be re-listed and protected indefinitely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6X9TjBAnvU
Current wolf management is not management. It exceeds any sense of fair chase or ethical treatment of this animal. It is wolf vendetta season with trapping beyond the hunt season, multiple tags during the hunt season, extended hunt season. It is not based on anything but rancher and sportsmen pushed vendetta and politics, not science. FWP, USFWS, USDA Wildlife Services deserve no respect on this. The states have shown by their killing attitudes and actions that they cannot responsibly manage wolves. The state forces just mentioned are too much in control. The rationales for management are false: They are killing too many elk. The elk population in Montana has increased 47% since wolf reintroduction. They are depredating cattle. No, they are not; they kill only .0029% for which Stockgrowers are reimbursed.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/stop-shooting-wolves-you-maniacs
http://wiwildlifeethic.org/2012/12/04/outstanding-opinion-piece-from-former-huntertrapper/
http://animalconnectionac.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/current-wolf-hunt-management-by-states-may-well-end-scientific-study-of-wolf-behavior-in-the-wild/
“I stopped hunting and trapping long ago. For years, I was ambivalent about speaking out because I accepted the cultural and psychological influences motivating those who grew up considering unnecessary killing a sport. I’ve come to recognize how superficial, shallow, fleeting and self-destructive is this violent indulgence.”
-Bradley Ayers, Veteran and former hunter/trapper.
It is time to end the slaughter, end states’ management, re-list the wolf, and maybe all predators and keep them out of state control. Wildlife agencies are too wedded to sportsmen, ranchers, and local-vocal-yokel wolf haters, who are hysteria driven.
http://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/1445/
Wolves do not need to be controlled, as anti-wolf wing nuts scream. Elk populations have increased about 47% in Montana since wolf introduction and self-reintroduction. The elk-wolf- predator relationship has stabilized in Yellowstone with a self-regulating ecological system with positive cascading effects on flora and fauna life as was in the 1870′s, before man interference and manipulation. Wolves killed 74 cattle in 2011 in Montana. There are 2,500,000 cattle in Montana, 74 divided by 2,500,000 is .00029 percent, statistically zero. The 2 main reasons fro killing wolves, who will regulate themselves, as do all predators, is mute. So, the reason for killing wolves is something irrational, visceral, ant-predator hysteria, anti-federal government hysteria, and anti-conservation. What is it but yokel-vocal-conservative-sportsmen-rancher and their ilk (FWP, USFWS, and USDA Wildlife Services, conservative far right state legislatures) craziness and legislatures like them, who reflect them?
The only way most of these right wing nut anti-wolfers in Montana legislature and other western state legislatures and sporting groups and ranchers are going to see a wolf is on the Discovery Channel or in National Geographic. There is something primordial, totally irrational going on here among these ant-wolfers. Those who care about predators and wolves in particular, must start making a broader appeal to America, stop preaching so much to the choir, produce, more videos and documentaries, and tell more stories such as “Romeo, The Story of An Alaskan Wolf by John Hyde”. We are losing the battle, unless we appeal to a larger audience. We are either preaching to the choir when talking ourselves or talking to deaf ears when we talk to the right. Find some wildlife friendly politicians and move to have the wolves re-listed.
It is blatantly obvious that state management is too political, ignorant, misinformed, anti-science, hysterical, irrational, based on primordial fear, visceral, crazy driven to leave it to redneck states, like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and mid-western states like Wisconsin. It was insane to de-list the wolf and turn it over to state management and traditional enemies of predator wildlife and balanced wilderness ecological systems.
Ditto to everything you have written.
WOW Roger thanks for all that information im guessing youve been fighting this for a while you really seem to know whats going on i didnt know that rides where a way to sneak something by for fear of scrutiny and now alot more is clear to me i also think youre right in saying help must come from outside of the states where wolf hunting is already allowed ive signed petitions shared them sent emails to representatives in ALL states wolf hunting and trapping has been allowed and my state of NJ asking that they intercede and help to get wolf hunting & trapping stopped my reps are in agreeance at least thats what the told me ive also sent emails to congress and the President also to Salazar but we all know thats futile ive also made phone calls its just heartbreaking to think of what may happen if these hunts arent stopped i fear we will have no more wolves left for future generations Thanks again Roger for the info it helped me understand so much more of what the wolves and the wolf activist-advocates are facing Thanks Stacey for posting this action taken and shared in several places
Yes, Thank You Roger. I love your passion. This is so great! I would love to meet you some day.
I have been out west to protest the slaughtering that is going on, Helena & Boise, then I have been to Madison, WI. to protest there also. The more people know, the more people will become pissed @ what is going on, not just with wolves but with ALL of our wildlife. It seems that money is the way of the world. If you don’t have money, you don’t have ANY say as to what happens.
Thanks again Roger.
Enough is enough. I am not buying this anti-wildlife nonsense. I want the wolves to stay protected in the country. Congress you need to do the right things to protect and save wolves, and other wildlife. They need help.