Dear [Decision Maker],
I urge your to fully protect our nation's gray wolf populations, especially in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Oregon where they are under lethal attack from the state agencies. Please give them the life-saving protection of the Endangered Species Act.
In Montana and Idaho, hundreds of wolves have been killed already, while Wyoming has the green light to begin slaughtering more than 200 wolves and Oregon is fighting in court to kill two od its 14 wolves.
Wolves in the United States have been persecuted for more than a century. Today, they survive in just
5 percent of their historic range in the lower 48. We cannot afford to kill wolves by the hundreds when there are so few left as it is. And the few that do remain do so in small, isolated pockets, a recipe for extinction which is not helped by states like Wyoming's plan to create vast "no-wolf zones."
I'm writing today to ask you to restore protection for the gray wolf and its critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act, and to respond to the Center for Biological Diversity's petition for a national wolf recovery plan.
