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Stop Wolf Killing in the Northern Rockies!

Target: U.S. House of Representatives
Sponsored by: Earthjustice

After more than a decade of conservation efforts and millions of federal dollars, wolves are finally returning to the northern Rockies.

Now, the Bush administration plans to remove wolves from the Endangered Species List and allow the states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana to wipe out nearly 80 percent of all the wolves remaining in the Northern Rockies!

The Wyoming Plan allows anyone to kill any wolf that wanders outside a small area in the northwest corner of the state. The plan would even target animals that live for most of the year in Yellowstone National Park but only wander out in the winter in search of food. Tell Congress to oppose the Bush administration's plans and make sure wolves are protected in the northern Rockies!

deadline: 1-9-2009
goal: 60,000

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Sadly, on Jan. 21, 2008 the Department of the Interior officially announced the removal of the Northern Rocky Mountains population of gray wolves from the Endangered Species List.
Environmental groups around Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho called the announcement premature and says it threatens to undo decades of work and millions of dollars poured into wolf recovery efforts.

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Dear [Decision Maker],

I am writing to express my deep opposition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service�s plan to remove gray wolves from the federal Endangered Species List. The federal action would allow the states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana to kill 1200 of the 1500 wolves remaining in the northern Rockies and push the species back towards extinction.

The Wyoming Plan allows anyone to kill any wolf that wanders outside a small area in the northwest corner of the state. The plan would even target animals that live for most of the year in Yellowstone National Park but only wander out in the winter in search of food. Scientists have already warned that a few thousand wolves are necessary to ensure the long-term survival of the species, but the Bush administration has chosen to ignore the science and a solid majority of Americans who support wolf recovery efforts. The administration has even developed a contingency plan that will allow most of the current northern Rockies wolf population to be killed even if lawsuits are successful in keeping wolves on the endangered species list.

A 2006 study by the University of Montana found that wolves in Yellowstone bring $35 million tourism dollars to the local economy each year, yielding more than $70 million in added benefit to communities in the northern Rockies. More importantly, the park�s natural balance has been restored because wolves prevent an overpopulation of elk and deer from overgrazing vegetation and threatening the health of streams and creeks.

I urge you to join Congressman Nick Rahall and several of his congressional colleagues in urging the Secretary of the Interior to stop these unwarranted actions to promote senseless wolf killing. Wolves are an integral part of the northern Rockies and plans to kill most of them in the region would be a huge setback to years of wolf recovery.

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We signed the “Stop Wolf Killing in the Northern Rockies!” petition!

# 55,550:

3:47 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Croatia
Every segment of nature has its reason! So do wolfs....

# 55,549:

3:46 pm PST, Feb 13, Somi Amir, New York

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2:38 pm PST, Feb 13, Kasie Culi, Maryland

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2:37 pm PST, Feb 13, Ty Reynolds, Texas
Why would you kill these wolves? Do you not want our kids to have a chance to see nature, we move in on nature, invade all their space, and when we have enough we kill them off? that doesnt sound right, make federal nature preserves to save our wildlife that we have left, so our kids can see these animals in their natural habitat. Dont kill them off, have them captured, and safelly removed to preserves.

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2:34 pm PST, Feb 13, Jayne & Carlos Ortiz, Florida
Please help these precious animals. They were put on this earth for a reason.

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2:33 pm PST, Feb 13, Natalya Peskin, Washington
Wolves are an important part of an ecosystem, and hardly ever do any harm to humans. Without wolves, population of deer and rabbits grows out of control. When there is not enough food for multiplied rabbits, they start eating crops. When sickly deer is not eaten by wolves, rats come to feast, and then they multiply out of control. Nature creates a delicate balance � destroying it never did any good to environment or to humans.

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2:32 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Colorado

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2:29 pm PST, Feb 13, Tracey Sullivan, South Carolina

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2:27 pm PST, Feb 13, Leslie Valentine, New York

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2:24 pm PST, Feb 13, Tina Gardner, Florida

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2:24 pm PST, Feb 13, Joanne Helperin, California

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2:23 pm PST, Feb 13, Judith Huelsman, California
THey were made extinct in the US once, now that we are balancing out the eco system we cannot allow this atrocity to occur again! The wolf is a highly intelligent sentient thinking feeling living life form. Recent research has shown that canines have deductive logic and reasoning powers, which was thought to only be a human ability. So, if it is illegal to shoot another human, than deductively it would rason that it is also illegal to shoot a wolf.

# 55,538:

2:22 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, California
Please stop the killing of Gray wolves they are a sacred animal that belong here on the earth.

# 55,537:

2:21 pm PST, Feb 13, Karen Campbell, New Hampshire

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2:20 pm PST, Feb 13, Loretta Mullett, North Carolina

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2:19 pm PST, Feb 13, Barbara Games, Utah

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2:19 pm PST, Feb 13, Spencer Berg, California
If they remove the Wolf from the Endangered Species list, we all know that in a matter of time, hunters will be all over all these poor wolves. Please do not let that happen.

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2:19 pm PST, Feb 13, Jessie Tawney, Indiana

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2:18 pm PST, Feb 13, Patricia Gallo, Arizona

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3:22 pm PST, Feb 13, Luiz Carlos de Souza, Brazil

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3:21 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Tennessee

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2:15 pm PST, Feb 13, Ben Basin, Oregon

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2:15 pm PST, Feb 13, Tracy Rhymer, Mississippi

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2:14 pm PST, Feb 13, Michael McGoun, Ohio

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2:10 pm PST, Feb 13, Sande Waybill, Australia

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2:08 pm PST, Feb 13, Kathy Reed, California

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2:08 pm PST, Feb 13, Beverly Harris, California
We've come so far to bring this grand animal back from the brink of extinction. What a shame to remove them from protection. Please do not.

# 55,523:

2:06 pm PST, Feb 13, Robert Cannon, New York
Live and let live. There is a natural balance that occurs in nature, when wolves are hunted an unbalance will occur.

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2:05 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Spain
Wolves are noble creatures. Wolves are beutifull creatures And without these beutifull creatures america will be empty and void of beuty.

# 55,521:

2:04 pm PST, Feb 13, Tiffany Haverfield, New Hampshire

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2:03 pm PST, Feb 13, Daniel Gonzalez, California

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2:03 pm PST, Feb 13, Susan Choquette, Rhode Island
Please DO NOT remove gray wolves from the federal Endangered Species List.

# 55,518:

2:00 pm PST, Feb 13, Nathaniel Money, Missouri

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1:56 pm PST, Feb 13, Irina Gukasova, Tennessee

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1:56 pm PST, Feb 13, Steven Braun, Texas

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1:55 pm PST, Feb 13, Brianne Zulauf, New York
Lets just not take animals off the endangered species list... ever. If there were ever endangered, no matter how many spawn up... they should always be protected.

# 55,514:

1:55 pm PST, Feb 13, Charissa Casey, Massachusetts

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1:54 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Connecticut
Please understand it is their world too.

# 55,512:

1:51 pm PST, Feb 13, Jason Smith, Ohio

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1:50 pm PST, Feb 13, Heather Harris, Arkansas

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2:53 pm PST, Feb 13, Sandi Vitek, Ohio

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1:46 pm PST, Feb 13, Jo Levkoff, Tennessee
ALL life is sacred. Where is your compassion?

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1:45 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, New York

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1:44 pm PST, Feb 13, Laurie Sadofsky, New York

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2:50 pm PST, Feb 13, Colette Evans, Hawaii

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1:43 pm PST, Feb 13, Sabrina Lopez, California

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1:43 pm PST, Feb 13, Christen Tibbits, Washington

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2:48 pm PST, Feb 13, Eva Abate, New York

# 55,502:

1:40 pm PST, Feb 13, Nola Chambers, Colorado
Do not take the wolf off of the Endangered Species List!!! If this happens and hunting is allowed again, it would be like taking one step forward to protect them with the Act and then taking a dozen backwards. What if the killing goes to far this time and wolves are destroyed forever? The loss of such a beautiful and majestic creature could not be put into words! We as a race do not own the world, even though we think that we do, we are only a very small part of it. I say we should declare Open Season on the stupid people that want to kill off the wolf or any other species. Thank goodness President Bush is on his way out!

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1:39 pm PST, Feb 13, Cinzia Moschini, California

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