All my life I have been fascinated by the beautiful and majestic grey wolf. I’ve sponsored wolf pups and contributed to conservation campaigns to help bring this species back from the brink of extinction. Now I’ve learned that the federal government is trying to pull a fast one by going around its own regulations for delisting an Endangered Species and is getting ready to vote on a proposal to allow states in the Yellowstone region to slaughter up to 700 of these incredible animals, effectively wiping out half of the gains made in the last ten years.
The grey wolf needs your help. Please go to this website and send a message to the western Grey Wolf Coordinator, Ed Bangs. The full text of the message you will be sending by filling in the form is as follows:
I strongly oppose your recent wolf management proposal — the 10J rule — that would give states a license to kill wolves in areas where big game populations are below objective, possibly leading to the extermination of up to 700 wolves in Wyoming and Idaho combined. This would reverse the welcome gains in recovery of this magnificent species in the Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho regions.
I am especially outraged that your proposal would empower states to begin slaughtering wolves as early as this fall – even before wolves are taken off the Endangered Species list. It is scandalous that you are circumventing your agency’s own process for delisting a species.
Wolves once thrived in much of the lower 48 states. Today, they reside in only five percent of their former range. If there is one place in this country where they should be allowed to flourish, it is in and around Yellowstone — our nation’s oldest park — and the remote Selway Bitterroot ecosystem in central Idaho.
I urge you not to decimate a wolf population that has only recently sprung back to life and is world-renowned as a symbol of the American West.
I call on you to withdraw your proposal to allow the massive killing of wolves in the northern Rockies.
Please pass this around to as many of your friends as possible and help save this majestic species.
