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Stop the Latest Assault on Our Wolves

Target: Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

The Bush/Cheney Administration has announced two proposals to jumpstart the killing of hundreds of wolves in the Yellowstone area and elsewhere in the Northern Rockies.

Officials in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are now seeking public comment on the agency's proposal to accept Wyoming's disastrous wolf management plan and to give Idaho and Wyoming vast new powers to kill wolves -- even while these magnificent animals remain listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The deadline for comments on these two flawed proposals is Monday, August 6th. Please sign our petition to send your message to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service right now!

deadline: 8-6-2007
goal: 50,000

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The deadline for comments on these anti-wolf plans was August 6th - thank you for your actions! This petition is now closed.
You can still help wolves. Representative George Miller (D-CA) will be introducing legislation in September to close a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to prohibit aerial gunning of wolves. Urge your representative to protect wolves by co-sponsoring this bill!

SL: RE: RIN 1018-AU53 and RIN 1018-AV39

Dear Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator,

As a supporter of Defenders of Wildlife, I strongly oppose the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent proposals regarding the management of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies (RIN 1018-AV39 and RIN 1018-AU53).

Specifically, I object to the Service's plan to redefine what are seen as "unacceptable impacts" on elk and other species (RIN 1018-AV39). The new, vaguer definition would cause wolves to be killed not just for causing game populations to fall below state targets, but also if wolves affect deer or elk movements or behavior in almost any way.

Such an approach is not based on sound science. According to the state wildlife agency estimates, game populations are thriving in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

I believe the revised definition would pose an unacceptable threat to the long term survival of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. Under the proposed definition, endangered wolves could be killed just for fulfilling their natural role in the Northern Rockies' interconnected ecosystem -- down to only 200 wolves per state.

I also strongly oppose the proposal to accept Wyoming's management plan for gray wolves and remove gray wolves in that state from the list of Threatened and Endangered Species (RIN 1018-AU53). The plan now supported by your agency is strikingly similar to the proposal the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rightly opposed until recently.

Wyoming's plan would classify wolves as "predatory animals" in the majority of the state, allowing wolves to be shot on sight by anyone at anytime. Trapping, baiting, and possibly even poisoning would also become legal.

Wyoming officials have already announced plans to kill all but 100 wolves as soon as possible, and to manage wolves at the lowest population levels that are legally permissible going forward.

Both of these proposals threaten the future of wolves in the Northern Rockies, and both should be rejected.

Thank you for considering my comments.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]

We signed the “Stop the Latest Assault on Our Wolves” petition!

# 20,300:

10:03 am PDT, Aug 7, Vic Maietta, New York
Wolves are awesome and endangered. Now everyone is trying to gun them down. This is sick! They came before us in the evolutionary line-up so they have more right to land than we do!

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10:03 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Texas
This whole thing makes me sick. Does the current administration care about anything anymore? (Besides money & power?)

# 20,298:

10:02 am PDT, Aug 7, Russ J. Haddad, South Carolina

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10:00 am PDT, Aug 7, Robin Varbel, California
God created the wolves for a reason. Let us HONOR his creations and leave the wolves alone. They are distant relatives of our beloved pets, our dogs.They have every RIGHT to LIVE and survive!!!! Heavenly Father, please protect our wolves from the dangers of assault. Please open the eyes of the Bush Administration to the unrighteous act of killing our wolves. Please bless those who are leading this petition and help them in accomplishing all for the wolves. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

# 20,296:

9:57 am PDT, Aug 7, Margaret Farley, Alabama
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE. The killing of over 700 wolves is NOT good stewardship over Gods creatures. What goes around comes around.

# 20,295:

9:52 am PDT, Aug 7, Victoria Faeo, Alaska
The ecosystem balances itself out, so wolf preditor control should not be used because it will disrupt a wolf populations' ability to survive. They do easily become exterminated. Cattleman should use mounted cowboys, dogs, llamas, and electric enclosures to protect their cattle. The top preditors, like wolves, are needed to keep other game in check and coyotes as well.

# 20,294:

9:51 am PDT, Aug 7, Michael Turino, New Hampshire

# 20,293:

9:49 am PDT, Aug 7, Linda Pringle, Utah
It is imperative that you stop this assault on wolves. These animals are part of our heritage and need to be preserved.

# 20,292:

9:49 am PDT, Aug 7, Cheri Mills, Alabama

# 20,291:

9:45 am PDT, Aug 7, Tabitha Groh, Delaware

# 20,290:

9:44 am PDT, Aug 7, Ans Verhoef, Netherlands
please stop this!

# 20,289:

9:43 am PDT, Aug 7, Vickie Hogan, Tennessee

# 20,288:

9:42 am PDT, Aug 7, M. Ricigliano, New Jersey
I can not believe that this Republican Administration wants to sanction this horrific slaughter. I will remember this the next time I enter the polling booth.

# 20,287:

9:39 am PDT, Aug 7, Heidi Shafer, Florida
Please stop this assualt on the wolves

# 20,286:

9:39 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, New Jersey
Leave them alone!!!!

# 20,285:

9:30 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Virginia

# 20,284:

9:29 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, New York

# 20,283:

9:29 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 20,282:

9:28 am PDT, Aug 7, Carrie Goodman, Arizona

# 20,281:

9:23 am PDT, Aug 7, Lucy Spalding, Florida
I can't believe the Bush/Cheney administration is allowing over 700 wolves to be killed for no real apparent reason. It all sounds like sensless violence and this endangered species should be protected and cared for, not harmed.

# 20,280:

9:21 am PDT, Aug 7, Danielle Dircks, Minnesota

# 20,279:

9:17 am PDT, Aug 7, Craig Leach, Texas
What possible good could come from killing wolves? Possibly saving a few cattle? The wolves were here first and are part of our natural world. Is money more important than the national heritage of our land? What will we tell our grandchildren when they ask us where all the animals have gone?

# 20,278:

9:15 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Florida
There must be space for our wild creatures on this planet. Please don't allow them to be distroyed.

# 20,277:

9:14 am PDT, Aug 7, Melinda Miles, Tennessee

# 20,276:

9:12 am PDT, Aug 7, Tamera Partin, Tennessee
a management plan needs to be placed on the overpopulation of humans too!!! Overpopulation and development is the problem ....Killing native wildlife is not the answer!

# 20,275:

9:04 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Montana

# 20,274:

9:01 am PDT, Aug 7, Wendy Stewart, Kentucky

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8:59 am PDT, Aug 7, Laura Mieczkowski, Illinois

# 20,272:

8:57 am PDT, Aug 7, Bleumers Elke, Belgium

# 20,271:

8:56 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
This is a poorly thought out solution that lacks any strategic thinking. It is short sited and ignorant. It will inevitably result in the gray wolf's extinction. I'm ashamed to be part of the human race and especially an American when we take part in playing God to this extent. And, from what I've read it also involves what in other situations this country calls cruel and inhumane. We need a more sound, rational, thought out plan that includes looking at the future of all animals not just those that seem to help certain groups' pocket books.

# 20,270:

8:53 am PDT, Aug 7, Amy Skishalley, Pennsylvania

# 20,269:

8:49 am PDT, Aug 7, C. Novo, New Jersey

# 20,268:

8:44 am PDT, Aug 7, Patty Dye, Ohio
I am very angry about the assault on wolves.They are living,breathing creatures and have feelings and rights too.

# 20,267:

8:42 am PDT, Aug 7, M. Joe Herwins, Massachusetts

# 20,266:

8:40 am PDT, Aug 7, Malia Curran, Massachusetts

# 20,265:

8:39 am PDT, Aug 7, Susan M. Nagy, Pennsylvania

# 20,264:

8:37 am PDT, Aug 7, Angela Hicks, South Carolina
It's a shame the gov. would publicly announce he wants to be the first to kill a wolf. These are Gods creatures and they have a right to be protected. If they are a problem they should be relocated, not killed!

# 20,263:

8:35 am PDT, Aug 7, Munjuri Blocker, California

# 20,262:

8:32 am PDT, Aug 7, Dunia Marquez, Florida
Please stop animal abuse and killing. They are living creatures and feel pain and suffer when hurt or killed.

# 20,261:

8:31 am PDT, Aug 7, Karen Kay Wallace, Kansas

# 20,260:

8:30 am PDT, Aug 7, Dvorah Oppenheimer, Washington
Stop the killing. Enough is enough!

# 20,259:

8:21 am PDT, Aug 7, Laraine M. Lebron, New York
First the governor sounds like a moron. Have we as humans stopped evolving over the past few decades. For heaven's sake, let's start using our heads and hearts when dealing with wildlife.

# 20,258:

8:21 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Illinois
We are overpopulating, not them! Why are we destroying wolves and other animals on the brink of extinction when WE are the cause of their loss of habitat and threat to wildlife!!?

# 20,257:

8:18 am PDT, Aug 7, Vincent Rotella, New York
Animals feel pain, fear, anxiety, and affection towards each other and us humans. Those who callously treat them as things to be selecteed for removal, because of inconvenience, seem to lack these characterisics. Would you shoot your pet dog?

# 20,256:

8:17 am PDT, Aug 7, Lizzy Not-telling, Maine

# 20,255:

8:17 am PDT, Aug 7, ADELE UPTON, Mississippi

# 20,254:

8:14 am PDT, Aug 7, Maria Zoltek, Illinois
We have a choice, they don't. Let's choose to be more kind and humane to all living things.

# 20,253:

8:13 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, North Carolina

# 20,252:

8:10 am PDT, Aug 7, Susan Angelou, New Jersey
It is unfortunate that there are those in the "civilized world" that still have the impetus to eliminate those things (in this case, a wolf),for the financial gain of a few. When will the elitism & cronyism end? These are public lands, and the public wants it's animals protected from these special interest.

# 20,251:

8:10 am PDT, Aug 7, Kathrine O'Shea, New York

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