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Stop the Bush/Cheney Sneak Attack on Wolves

Target: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
Officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration are moving forward with plans to allow wolves to be killed in Idaho and Wyoming even before the animals are removed from the list of federally protected endangered and threatened species.

Help us stop them. Sign the petition today to send a message to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and urge him to abandon efforts to let states start killing wolves and to delay de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000
 

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Protect Wolves in the Northern Rockies

Dear Secretary Kempthorne,

As a supporter of Defenders of Wildlife and someone who takes great pride in the successful reintroduction of wolves to the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region, I am deeply concerned with your agency's actions to eliminate vital protections for this still-recovering population.

In particular, I am disturbed by your agency's support of rule changes that would allow wolves to be killed in Idaho and Wyoming even before these animals are removed from the list of federally protected threatened and endangered species.

I am also concerned with your agency's support for de-listing of gray wolves. Officials in Idaho and Wyoming have made clear that they intend to "manage" wolves at the lowest level permitted by law, a policy that will likely result in the removal of two-thirds of the wolves in Wyoming and all but approximately 100 wolves in Idaho.

Your agency is charged with protecting America's natural treasures and is accountable to the tens of thousands of people in the Northern Rockies and across the country who have spoken out against the proposal to de-list wolves. I sincerely hope that you will remember these facts as you consider your agency's responsibility to America's future generations.

Thank you for considering my comments.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
We signed the “Stop the Bush/Cheney Sneak Attack on Wolves” petition!
# 100:
8:37 am PST, Dec 28, E. Melanie Ko-McCarthy, Oregon
You can measure the compassion of a society by the way they treat animals, and there is no compassion here.
# 99:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, M.C. Schultz, California
Wolves have as much right to life as any other creature......ESPECIALLY in the protected area of our national parks!
# 98:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Kristina Tomko, Illinois
# 97:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Jamie Hicks, Pennsylvania
Hundreds of lives are already being spared, why move on a kill the animals as well?
# 96:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, David Sanders, Texas
# 95:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Shannon Bromley, Michigan
# 94:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Paula Wanter, Ohio
This is cruel, unethical, and just plain wrong. Another example of man's arrogance and one more reason not to vote any Republican into office.
# 93:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Virginia
# 92:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Melinda Keyes, Texas
live and let live
# 91:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Carole Klein, North Carolina
# 90:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Laura B, California
# 89:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Barbara Henshel, Rhode Island
Leave the wolves alone. Just leave our wildlife alone.
# 88:
8:36 am PST, Dec 28, Regina Kirsh, New York
# 87:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 86:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Sally Ferguson, Ohio
Do not form a massacre on these wolves. If they are a threat to any humans or other living creatures then allow individual hunters to weed out some. Perhaps they might be good for eating. I lived in that area and wolves were never a threat to us.
# 85:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Mara McDonald, Wisconsin
I'm sorry. What is the reason for slaughtering a species that is listed as endangered? Why was so much money poured into salvaging wolves, if so much money is poured into slaughtering them? Can't this money be put to education, health care, and protecting endangered resources to far better effect?
# 84:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Dorothy Wolking, Minnesota
Protect our wolves; they also are an important part of creation.
# 83:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Kristine Kuroiwa, New York
# 82:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Diane Verrochi, Connecticut
# 81:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Samantha Lanzara, Texas
# 80:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Theresa J. Siebers, North Carolina
I oppose the killing of God's creatures. If Bush & Cheney want to kill something, go hunting together and give Cheney the gun!
# 79:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Todd Dobesh, Minnesota
# 78:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Donna Guardino, Ohio
# 77:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Tricia Valene, California
# 76:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Dani Simon, Florida
Wolves are beautiful creatures along with all wildlife in America. There is no reason to outright kill this beast when it is merely trying to survive. There is no victory in this situation, just public disapproval and the guilt of knowing you eliminated the wolf's chance for survival.
# 75:
8:35 am PST, Dec 28, Anika Habermas-scher, Michigan
Please protect our helpless wildlife!
# 74:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Mike Hemstead, Oregon
# 73:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Pat Symchych, Texas
Don't you care???
# 72:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Marti Wiseman, Pennsylvania
# 71:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Dee Sutphin, Pennsylvania
Let the wolves live in peace, they belong there, need a home to live in.
# 70:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Nan Hackett, Colorado
# 69:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, A G, New Jersey
# 68:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Michigan
Does this misadministration do anything that is good or positive?
# 67:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, George Starr, Illinois
# 66:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Rachel Ward, North Carolina
# 65:
8:34 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Illinois
# 64:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Bob McCaffrey, Massachusetts
Please stop this ridiculous practice. thank you.
# 63:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Andrea Paz, Massachusetts
# 62:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Natasha Marquez, Florida
# 61:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Bernadette Robinson, Illinois
This is their world too, stop the murder of innocent animals.
# 60:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Jill Andrews, Illinois
# 59:
8:33 am PST, Dec 28, Jody Uppole, Ohio
When will humans learn that Mother Nature knows best? We continue to "tweak" nature to the brink of disaster.
# 58:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Louise Rosenberg, Illinois
Don't give in to the cattle/big meat contingent. Wolves only eat cattle as a last resort. The totally number of cattle lost to wolves is very small and there was a fund in the past to compensate for economic loss.
# 57:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Maine
I suppose wolves are the new axis of evil?
# 56:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Theresa DeLuca, Massachusetts
# 55:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Lisa D., North Carolina
Save our wildlife! Save our wolves! Please abandon your efforts to allow states to start killing wolves! Please stop promoting the premature de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
# 54:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Lisa Schmid, Virgin Islands
I oppose any proposal that would threaten the long-term future of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region. Please speak for us and them, that this is wrong!
# 53:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Barbara Blandford Helm, Virginia
# 52:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Keri Eckhardt, Ohio
This is a heinous crime against life on Earth and should be stopped immediately! We as humans were put here on Earth to take care of the animals and the land...so stop destroying it for your owm political agenda.
# 51:
8:32 am PST, Dec 28, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
This president's attitude toward killing people and animals is despicable! Thank God that November is on the way. Our born again president has left a terrible legacy for generations to come.
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