- Signatures: 3,971
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 10-9-2002
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Your help is needed to save the Toklat and Margaret wolves of Denali National Park. I urge you to support Proposal 53, 54, and 55 to maintain and enlarge a buffer zone on state lands adjacent to Denali National Park to protect the Toklat and Margaret wolves within their full and complete territories.
In the last 20 years, three Denali wolf families in the eastern area of the Park have been wiped out by recreational trappers -- the Savage group in the late eighties, the highly visible Headquarters family in the mid-nineties, and the Sanctuary pack in April of 2002. The Mount Margaret pack currently occupying Sanctuary territory will likely meet this same fate if the existing buffer expires and a larger buffer is not created.
These are not ordinary wolves. Unlike elsewhere, the Denali Park wolves have become tolerant of humans and allow humans to watch them close up. Tourists who ride the bus into the park have about a 12 percent chance of seeing wolves, which is incredibly high when it comes to seeing wolves. The wolves often walk on the park road or hunt in full sight of visitors. (http://www.savetoklatwolf.com/Wolf1.html)
Trapped in April by a National Park Service employee, the last remaining member of the Sanctuary wolf family in Denali National Park recently met her fate in a snare. This female pup was orphaned when her mother was killed during radio-collaring by a Park researcher last year. During that time, her siblings disappeared and were likely trapped in the same area.
These wolves also deserve additional protection for their international significance. On Tuesday, November 2nd, 1999 CBS Evening News with Dan Rather featured the Toklat Wolves of Denali National Park, Alaska in a special segment of "Eye on America," hosted by John Blackstone. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/02/eveningnews/main68682.shtml)
For all the above reasons, I ask that you do everything in your power to stop the trapping and hunting of the Toklat and Margaret wolves on state land adjacent to Denali National Park.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Country | Why are the Denali wolves important to me? | If you have ever seen a wild wolf, please tell us what that meant to you. | Occupation: tourist, photographer, writer, artist, student, teacher, etc. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,986 | 1:55 am PDT, Jun 22 | Ms. | Amanda Taylor | Florida | United States | Wolves are on the brink of extinction. They need protection before they are lost forever. Relocation efforts should also be considered in over populated areas, not hunting permits. | Vet technician, artist | |
| 3,985 | 4:38 pm PDT, Apr 12 | Mr. | Michael Ostrosky | Pennsylvania | United States | All wildlife is important to me. Extinction is one of the worst crimes humanity can commit. | Engineer | |
| 3,984 | 2:39 pm PDT, Jul 4 | greta malkotzoglou | Greece | wolves must be protected as all the animals! | no | poet | ||
| 3,983 | 11:38 pm PDT, Apr 17 | Ms. | Laurel Watson | Arizona | United States | Wolves have been endangered. | yes. | Tech. |
| 3,982 | 12:47 am PDT, Mar 18 | Mr. | esteban rocha | Colombia | every single creature in this world matters. | student, photographer | ||
| 3,981 | 4:03 am PDT, Mar 11 | Mrs. | Tabitha Wilson | Ohio | United States | all Gods creatures are important. | homemaker | |
| 3,980 | 4:23 pm PST, Feb 17 | Ms. | asija pandzic | Missouri | United States | I love all animals | student | |
| 3,979 | 8:43 pm PST, Feb 15 | Tom Maxwell | California | United States | All wildlife including wolves must be protected from mankind's greed and stupidity or we will continue to destroy our planet and ourselves in the process. | Builder | ||
| 3,978 | 11:16 am PST, Jan 30 | Kyna Crain | Montana | United States | All wolves are important. | Yes. Several times. One came to my door and looked in the other night. Very wonderful creature. To see a wolf is always a great thing. May they ever be and roam free. | Photographer and artist. | |
| 3,977 | 1:40 pm PST, Nov 24 | Mr. | John Cena | Florida | United States | I love them | wrestler | |
| 3,976 | 11:01 pm PDT, Aug 21 | Ms. | Deborah Boothney | California | United States | These are treasures for us now and for our future generations. We must protect them and help them survive. | tourist | |
| 3,975 | 4:53 am PDT, Aug 21 | Mrs. | Sharon Collette | South Carolina | United States | All animals are important to me, especially wolves there is something majestic and spiritual about them to me | I've never seen a wild wolf ,but i would like to | housewife,animal lover and activist |
| 3,974 | 5:06 pm PDT, Jul 29 | Mrs. | Darlene Davis | Michigan | United States | All wolves and animals are important to me. | activist | |
| 3,973 | 1:05 am PDT, Jul 25 | dana szemereta | North Carolina | United States | i think all animals are imporaint | artist/high school student | ||
| 3,972 | 6:28 am PDT, Jun 26 | Ms. | Deborah Wen | New Jersey | United States | Please stop the government to allow hunters to kill wolves!!! Wolves are very important like any other creature and us, who also are the animals on earth. If I am a wolf, I can't imagine how my life purpose is being robbed just like Hilter allowing his troop to take Jewish's lives and Japaneses invading China in WWII. Please stop the wolf massacre and leave these precious creatures alone! | I would be thrilled to see a wild wolf just like seeing and meeting people from foreign countries. | Word processor, bookkeeper, & computer programmer |
| 3,971 | 6:43 pm PDT, May 22 | Christopher Bailey | Pennsylvania | United States | Their lives are important to us, they preserve nature and the balance in the wild. We humans kill that which has lives, so does that mean we put ourselves above god and all life? | It was bliss | writer, artist, student | |
| 3,970 | 6:16 pm PDT, May 8 | Ms. | Amber Weis | Illinois | United States | all animals are important to me | none | |
| 3,969 | 12:51 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Melissa Bardwell | Washington | United States | i love them | worker | ||
| 3,968 | 2:51 pm PDT, Apr 10 | Summer Jusek | Ohio | United States | all wolves are important to me, wolves give me courage and pride | I wish I could see a wild wolf, it would take my breath away if I saw one | student artist | |
| 3,967 | 4:22 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Keegan Amrose | Colorado | United States | it matters | artist | ||
| 3,966 | 10:48 pm PDT, Mar 16 | Victoria Thomas | Wyoming | United States | LOVE THEM | CITIZEN | ||
| 3,965 | 11:05 pm PDT, Mar 13 | Shonessi Tracy | Nebraska | United States | They are wonderful creatures and deserve to be LEFT ALONE!!! Why do humans think they have a right to kill? Who gave us a right to do that? Ourselves? How selfish are we? Don't even get me started on the issue of how humans have treated other humans. White man and how they treated the Indians...need I say more? | I am a tourist, photographer, writer, educator but first and foremost, I am above all things, an animal lover!!! | ||
| 3,964 | 4:26 am PST, Mar 5 | Crystal Foster | Kansas | United States | Because They Just Are! | Student | ||
| 3,963 | 8:19 am PST, Mar 1 | Scarlett Porter | Alabama | United States | All of the Creators creations are important to me...they are part of the circle of life...No man has the right to break that circle... "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit, for - whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to the man." | Have not been blessed with the honor... | Lover of all creations. | |
| 3,962 | 3:04 pm PST, Feb 27 | Dusty Washburn | Florida | United States | Again, a natural part of our habitat. | soul searching, thoughtful eyes. Very astute and intuitive animals | forensics | |
| 3,961 | 11:30 am PST, Feb 26 | Christine Iadeluca | New York | United States | . | . | ||
| 3,960 | 8:47 am PST, Feb 22 | Agata Olejniczak | Poland | They are a very beautiful animal! I love watching the Discovery channel about them and all other kind of wolves! | student | |||
| 3,959 | 12:01 pm PST, Feb 21 | Mrs. | Debra Micheal | Ohio | United States | They are a very beautiful animal! I love watching the Discovery channel about them and all other kind of wolves! | Housewife | |
| 3,958 | 6:51 pm PST, Feb 13 | Jamie Hein | Maryland | United States | i think they're beautiful animals that deserve to be safe | yes | student | |
| 3,957 | 6:44 am PST, Feb 10 | Dee Clifford | New York | United States | They are beautiful creatures and we should do everything possible to protect them | Retired | ||
| 3,956 | 2:56 am PST, Feb 8 | Ms. | Dhanya Lakshmi | India | Well if we all have a reason to live...the same applies to Denali wolves also... | Writer | ||
| 3,955 | 8:53 pm PST, Jan 28 | Ms. | Tori Rumbaugh | California | United States | b/c they're life | personal | |
| 3,954 | 6:10 pm PST, Jan 26 | Emily Lorenti | Connecticut | United States | I think all animals are important. | student | ||
| 3,953 | 5:36 pm PST, Jan 24 | David Boothney | California | United States | Wolves are especially important to me as I interact with them daily in captivity. They are also vital to many ecosystems. | I haven't seen a wild wolf, but I have heard them howl. It made me want to cry-it was a mournfull howl. | Security at a wolf sanctuary | |
| 3,952 | 2:03 pm PST, Jan 18 | Christine Bennett | Washington | United States | Wolves do not deserve to be put to death due to human ignorance. Wolves have gotten their bad reputation as "vicious" from the European settlers. But the truth is, wolves are not vicious animals at all. Instead they are devoted to their family and will do anything to protect each other. It has also been proven that wolves and humans have been able to live together in peace as oberved in Jim Dutcher's book: Wolves at our Door. It is not right that wolves should have to pay for their lives because people do not want to take the time to understand them. Instead myths from the European settlers are still being used today and are causing wolves to pay with their lives. | I have never seen one. | Artist and student. | |
| 3,951 | 5:11 pm PST, Jan 16 | Sage Wolf | Texas | United States | because Wolfs are one of the best animals that ever was created | Student |
2002- Protect the Wolves of Denali National Park with Buffer Zone
Your help is needed to save the Toklat and Margaret wolves of Denali National Park. I urge you to support Proposal 53, 54, and 55 to maintain and enlarge a buffer zone on state lands adjacent to Denali National Park to protect the Toklat and Margaret wolves within their full and complete territories.
In the last 20 years, three Denali wolf families in the eastern area of the Park have been wiped out by recreational trappers -- the Savage group in the late eighties, the highly visible Headquarters family in the mid-nineties, and the Sanctuary pack in April of 2002. The Mount Margaret pack currently occupying Sanctuary territory will likely meet this same fate if the existing buffer expires and a larger buffer is not created.
These are not ordinary wolves. Unlike elsewhere, the Denali Park wolves have become tolerant of humans and allow humans to watch them close up. Tourists who ride the bus into the park have about a 12 percent chance of seeing wolves, which is incredibly high when it comes to seeing wolves. The wolves often walk on the park road or hunt in full sight of visitors. (http://www.savetoklatwolf.com/Wolf1.html)
Trapped in April by a National Park Service employee, the last remaining member of the Sanctuary wolf family in Denali National Park recently met her fate in a snare. This female pup was orphaned when her mother was killed during radio-collaring by a Park researcher last year. During that time, her siblings disappeared and were likely trapped in the same area.
These wolves also deserve additional protection for their international significance. On Tuesday, November 2nd, 1999 CBS Evening News with Dan Rather featured the Toklat Wolves of Denali National Park, Alaska in a special segment of "Eye on America," hosted by John Blackstone. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/02/eveningnews/main68682.shtml)
For all the above reasons, I ask that you do everything in your power to stop the trapping and hunting of the Toklat and Margaret wolves on state land adjacent to Denali National Park.
Respectfully,
The Undersigned
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