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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!

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7:00 pm PDT, Apr 15, Doris Schoning, Ohio
Please stop this killing of our wolfs. It is natures way. We just reestablished them and I personally sponsored one of them in Yellowstone. Why does the Bush administration want to ravage and kill everything living? I am so tired of the hatred and killings that are going on in this world. What is happening to humanity that we can not live with other species even our own.

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6:30 pm PDT, Apr 15, Gaby Gonzalez, Virginia
WHAT THE HELL!!!If you start killing them right when they are taking off they endangered species list they will be endangered again!!! These are beautiful animals and they were here first and people so rudly built over their homes!!! I cANt wait until these two idiots leave office....they are good-for-nothings....im sure they wouldnt like it if we killed them would they...ughhh they annoy me soooo much...SAVE THE WOLVES

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5:59 pm PDT, Apr 15, Paul Mb, Germany

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7:40 am PDT, Apr 15, Aura Beckhofer-Fialho, United Kingdom

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5:06 pm PDT, Apr 14, Wyatt McNeal, New Mexico

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3:56 pm PDT, Apr 14, Zack Newman, Colorado

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1:04 am PDT, Apr 14, Natasha Vuletich, Kuwait
just look at these adorable animals, how can you kill them. please do something to prevent this

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2:17 pm PDT, Apr 13, Name not displayed, Washington

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11:03 pm PDT, Apr 12, Rhonda Zorn, Kentucky

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6:43 pm PDT, Apr 11, Libby Gibson, Kentucky

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4:34 am PDT, Apr 11, Julieta Degiovani, Brazil

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9:48 pm PDT, Apr 10, Marlena Alo, Guam

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1:57 pm PDT, Apr 10, Warchild Warchild, Georgia

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1:40 pm PDT, Apr 10, Jeremy Winborne, Ohio

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1:38 pm PDT, Apr 10, Richard Caldwell, Ohio

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1:37 pm PDT, Apr 10, Heidi Caldwell, Ohio

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1:36 pm PDT, Apr 10, Chris Windborne, Ohio

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12:43 pm PDT, Apr 10, Cody Seymour, Ohio
Bush is really screwed up for thinking about this!!!!!

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12:41 pm PDT, Apr 10, Samantha Seymour, Ohio
What The Heck is Bush Thinking!!!!!!!!!

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9:43 am PDT, Apr 10, Hollye Hicks, Texas

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1:04 am PDT, Apr 10, Inger Møller, Denmark

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8:49 pm PDT, Apr 9, Argyris Tsementzis, Guam

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1:57 pm PDT, Apr 9, Tammy Mackey, Canada

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1:09 pm PDT, Apr 9, Kat Raisky, New Jersey

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8:36 am PDT, Apr 9, Audrey BATKO, France

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8:36 am PDT, Apr 8, Name not displayed, Utah

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2:10 am PDT, Apr 8, Dechaud Blandine, France

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2:09 am PDT, Apr 8, Dechaud Jm, France

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1:39 am PDT, Apr 8, Chiron Eva, France

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3:08 pm PDT, Apr 7, Jennifer Lundstrom, Illinois
I can not believe this and would like whoever has the power to do whatever they can to keep this from happening!!!

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2:49 pm PDT, Apr 7, Danny Battison, United Kingdom

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1:38 pm PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, Delaware
I think it is sick to allow that because they don't have a chance against men with guns and they are living and breathing animals and deserve every right every other living thing does.

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1:15 pm PDT, Apr 7, Angela Boss, Canada

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6:02 am PDT, Apr 7, Elissa Weindling, New York

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5:37 pm PDT, Apr 6, Natalie Swaim, Iowa

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4:35 pm PDT, Apr 6, Gerard Zaratan, California

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12:40 am PDT, Apr 6, Mavourneen Strozewski, Arkansas

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10:41 pm PDT, Apr 5, Raven Wrath, California
Government giveth, Government taketh away...Government only does what is profitable for the Government. No matter what dies, even the innocent, as long as the Government makes money off of it. Massive funding went into the relocation program set to reintroduce the wolves into our National Parks, and now the government has opened hunting season on the wolves; padding its pocket with hunting license fees, tag fees, and so on. Thus, making the Wolf into another profitable red tape venture. Humans need to stop encroaching on innocent beings for profit making, whether it be animals or other humans, it needs to stop.

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6:56 pm PDT, Apr 5, Shawn Williamson, California

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4:38 pm PDT, Apr 5, Elisa DeLapa, New York

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12:25 pm PDT, Apr 5, Juliane Burbach, Washington

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12:14 pm PDT, Apr 5, Ann Drechsler, Hawaii

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9:46 pm PDT, Apr 3, Patricia Feurer, Maryland

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12:01 pm PDT, Apr 3, Teresita Garza, Florida

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7:25 am PDT, Apr 3, Eva Šindeláøová, Czech Republic

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5:19 am PDT, Apr 2, Inger Larsen, Denmark

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7:39 pm PDT, Apr 1, Christina Mizelle, Texas
I hate how the hunter are gunning the wolves down by plane I mean these wolves are eloquent majestic beautiful and graceful creature who should be treated fairly I mean we don't gun down deer and torture them I hope those who do that should die in hell and be forced to cut themselves every second and shove a gun up their asses!

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1:30 pm PDT, Mar 31, Christine Rybakova, Greece

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12:06 pm PDT, Mar 31, Laurence Metereaux, France

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5:29 am PDT, Mar 31, Susan Volpe, Florida

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8:48 am PDT, Mar 30, LINDA DUKE, Illinois

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12:22 pm PDT, Mar 29, Said Ouch, Algeria
This is a crime killing wolf !!!!

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11:05 am PDT, Mar 29, Amber Kelsey, Texas

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8:57 pm PDT, Mar 28, Cathy Schrott, California

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4:09 am PDT, Mar 28, Franziska Leib, United Kingdom

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8:10 am PDT, Mar 27, Tricia Rodgers, Michigan
I cannot believe that these animals along with others are not being protected by our leader. What kind of leader lets people kill living creatures? Wolves, and other animals should live a peaceful and long lasting life. Some day this administration will be held accountable for their decisions. How will they explain the killing of intelligent, beautiful wolves to our Lord??

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2:56 am PDT, Mar 27, Can Atik, Turkey

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9:00 pm PDT, Mar 26, Elizabeth Oehrn, Sweden

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8:37 pm PDT, Mar 26, Peggy Harrison, North Carolina
This is outrageous and must be stopped. Is this administration trying to see how many humans and animals it can kill before it leaves office?

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6:45 pm PDT, Mar 26, Rafael Amaya, California

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2:16 pm PDT, Mar 26, Kate Evans, Georgia

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12:07 pm PDT, Mar 26, Cheryl Silkett, Missouri
What kind of role models do you have. Stop the abuse and killing of all animals. They should be able to live their live fear fee.

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5:07 pm PDT, Mar 24, Danny Roundtree, New Jersey

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4:04 pm PDT, Mar 24, Phillip Nona, Michigan
I cannot believe that these animals along with others are not being protected by our leader. What kind of leader lets people kill living creatures? Wolves, and other animals should live a peaceful and long lasting life.

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9:37 am PDT, Mar 24, JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois

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2:40 pm PDT, Mar 23, Tracy Slager, Indiana
Wolves play a vital role in the world, and in the health of the herds of their prey. Wolves hunt the sick, the injured, the lame, and the old. They do not do as humans do and take the strongest of the herd. They abhor cattle, they would rather avoid grazing land.

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8:25 pm PDT, Mar 22, Florian Kunz, Germany

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8:24 pm PDT, Mar 22, Andreas Kunz, Germany

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8:24 pm PDT, Mar 22, Hanna Kunz, Germany

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8:23 pm PDT, Mar 22, Miwa Kunz-Kuwahara, Germany

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