Wyoming and Idaho are poised to start the biggest wolf massacre in decades. Together, we can stop them.
Speak up for our wolves! Submit your comments today to federal officials. Tell them to keep critical protections in place for wolves in the Northern Rockies.
Your personalized public comments will have greater impact in the fight to protect our wolves. You can use these points in your official comment:
Federal protections under the Endangered Species Act must be kept intact for wolves in the Northern Rockies until adequate state plans are in place that would protect and conserve wolves.
Idaho is not ready or willing to manage wolves to ensure their existence into the future. Idahos official position on wolves, passed by their legislature, is that wolves should be removed "by whatever means necessary." The states Governor supports a plan to kill 80% of Idaho's wolves.
Wyoming's proposed state wolf laws are designed to kill as many wolves as possible - kill more than half of its wolves (16 of 23 packs) immediately upon delisting and to maintain extremely low wolf numbers thereafter through any means including poisoning, pulling pups from their dens and aerial gunning.
Submit your official public comment and tell officials why it's important to you that Northern Rockies wolves are protected. UPDATE: The public comment period ends Wednesday, May 9th - please sign to submit your comment today!
We signed the “Don't Strip ESA Protections From Wolves in WY and ID” petition!
# 70,340:
6:55 am PDT, May 10,Lauren Apollo, Massachusetts
The wolves were here first, let's protect them at all costs.
# 70,339:
6:54 am PDT, May 10,Jessica Roberts, Florida
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6:47 am PDT, May 10,Cathy Young, California
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6:42 am PDT, May 10,Linda Hedt, Washington
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6:37 am PDT, May 10,Jennifer Straine, Canada
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6:35 am PDT, May 10,LINWOOD THORNE, West Virginia
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6:33 am PDT, May 10,Joy Fertig, West Virginia
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6:31 am PDT, May 10,Kyle Canfield, New York
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6:31 am PDT, May 10,Lois Norrgard, Minnesota
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6:30 am PDT, May 10,Name not displayed, Colorado
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6:27 am PDT, May 10,Melissa Salerno, New York
# 70,329:
6:21 am PDT, May 10,Lu Haner, Massachusetts
# 70,328:
6:13 am PDT, May 10,Michael Keefer, Pennsylvania
Protect the wolves!
# 70,327:
6:01 am PDT, May 10,Theodore Alan carbone, Maryland
stop the killing
# 70,326:
5:47 am PDT, May 10,Christine Schomber, Connecticut
# 70,325:
5:46 am PDT, May 10,Nancy Garling, Michigan
Do the right thing for a change.
# 70,324:
5:44 am PDT, May 10,Munteanu Gabriela, Romania
# 70,323:
5:38 am PDT, May 10,KWAK Je, Netherlands
# 70,322:
5:08 am PDT, May 10,Susan Gingold, California
STOP KILLING WOLVES AND ALL OTHER ANIMALS!
# 70,321:
5:03 am PDT, May 10,Gerard Mangion, Australia
For all the effort going into culling these wolves surely more can be done to manage and protect their numbers including relocation and possibly zoo's. We need our natural environments and everything in them as much, if not more than we need our advancing developments and technology.
To strip ESA protection as intended is too much of a dramatic decrease on this beautiful creatures numbers and will in turn effect the immediate habitat and ecosystem.
All culling action if necessary must be done within a broad overview of impact on the entire environment both in the present sense and for future generations to come.
Be aware. Focusing on only one aspect of this issue is nothing less than fundamentalism. A very un american way to be.
# 70,320:
4:55 am PDT, May 10,Charles Carroll of Stewart, Ohio
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4:34 am PDT, May 10,Sheila Price, Washington
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4:31 am PDT, May 10,Craig Gunner, United Kingdom
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4:27 am PDT, May 10,Lawrence Dickerson, Florida
We need to take responsibility for taking care of the animals. We are the ones destroying the habitats and we are the ones that can make a difference and do what is morally right.
# 70,316:
4:16 am PDT, May 10,Rosemary Wetherill, North Carolina
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4:07 am PDT, May 10,Roger Fong, California
# 70,314:
3:45 am PDT, May 10,Anabela Antunes, France
It's inadmissible !!! brutal and horrible !! please stop this massacre of animals !!
# 70,313:
3:44 am PDT, May 10,Joseph R. Leven, Pennsylvania
Wolves are needed in the wild and should remain protected.
# 70,312:
3:38 am PDT, May 10,Jenni Peeznic, Connecticut
i feel that killing an innocent animal is wrong, they are breathing and living, just as much as you or i. wolves are majestic animals the dont deserve to be killed, as well as any other animal shouldnt be. if you were a wolf how would you like to taken out of existance, they are living and breathing animal, as we are. wolves are as innocent as an infant or young child, they dont know anything or any better, their way of life is the was they survive. WOLVES DESERVE TO
LIVE!!!'
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# 70,311:
3:27 am PDT, May 10,James K Power, New Jersey
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3:15 am PDT, May 10,Beth Bishop, California
Save our wolves
# 70,309:
3:12 am PDT, May 10,Nelson Jacobsen, Washington D.C.
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3:11 am PDT, May 10,Joshua A Besse, Georgia
Why does the President even have a say in what animals are on the endangered species list anyway! Imagine Bush's solution what you don't like wolves well let's just kill them better yet Bush just let scientist mess with their DNA and turn them into vegetarians!
# 70,307:
2:54 am PDT, May 10,J. Jencuyah, California
Obviously ID and WY are not willing or ready to take a balanced stand on the endangered wolf population. Since there is no one to speak for the wolves it is imperative that the ESA protections must be keep in place until adequate protections are taken to ensure the wolfs place in the ecosystem of these states.
# 70,306:
2:52 am PDT, May 10,Name not displayed, Florida
Neither Bush or Cheney care about people or animals. They only care about their pockets, which they line with money from big "contributors". Big politicians don't care about the impact of their actions 20 or more years down the road. We need to preserve the wolves, it took too many years to reintroduce them to their native habitats.
# 70,305:
2:44 am PDT, May 10,Sal Paladino, Florida
We are not gods with the power to decide what lives or dies. These animals have a reason for being here. Given the gift of our (so-called) intelligence, we should be looking out for everyone and everything. Yes, wolves may attack and kill other animals. That's why they are here. Just because we don't agree with their ways doesn't mean we can just exterminate them. If people do that to other people it is called genocide. Doing this to defenseless animals is ignorance and a crime.
# 70,304:
2:27 am PDT, May 10,Richard Cappotto, New York
Do you grok what is happening?
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2:24 am PDT, May 10,Dany S., Netherlands
Please listen to the people and reconsider ! The wolves are being reintroduced in Europa...do not let them be killed in the US !
# 70,302:
2:20 am PDT, May 10,Alida Harper Trocke, Wisconsin
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1:51 am PDT, May 10,Name not displayed, California
Canis Lupus are part of the chain of life as much as any other creature
this is part of wildlife in the freedom of the natural world. I find it highly unethical to kill such beautiful animals.
