What happens when our Gray Wolves are removed from federal Endangered Species Act protections and returned to the states to "manage" by wolf hunting.
Please contact your Congress and tell them to
oppose H.R. 843, H.R. 884, and H.R. 1985
2013: Montana. The Senseless Killing of a Malamute,
Mistaken by a Hunter for a Wolf
2015: North Idaho man says his dog was killed, mistaken for a wolf.
This USA Congress does not appear to want to keep our gray wolves protected.
The same “sound science” not utilized by USFWS in their proposal to delist Gray Wolves from the protections allowed under the Endangered Species Act in 2013 continues to apply now. Please do not allow certain members of the USA Congress to threaten Gray Wolf recovery again.
Background:
Action:
Please tell your Congress representatives and senators to:
Oppose HR843 and HR884.
Gray wolves have not made a full recovery and should not be delisted from Endangered Species Act protections.
Oppose HR1985
The Pacific Northwest Gray Wolf Management Act of 2015
All email and phone contact information and a suggestion on what to say listed below.
Thank you very much for speaking up
for our gray wolves !
February 7, 2015
Congress threatens wolves and the Endangered Species Act
You can speak up for our wolves.
Edited repost from Mexican Wolves:
Act today to keep wolves protected!
Congress threatens wolves and the Endangered Species Act (Feb. 2015)
If some members of Congress have their way, wolves across some or even all of the lower 48 states will lose their Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections through stand-alone bills or riders on must-pass legislation.
Your help is needed now to stop anti-wolf legislation from moving forward.
Please contact your members of Congress and Interior Secretary Jewell and tell them decisions about the future of endangered species should be based on science, not politics.
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Already, U.S. Rep. Reed Ribble (WI) is leading an effort to remove federal court protections for wolves in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Wyoming.
And it’s unlikely to stop there. Pressure is being applied to many members of Congress for legislation to push wolves nationwide, even the small, struggling population of Mexican gray wolves, towards extinction.
Bills or riders aimed at stripping endangered wolves of federal protections put more than wolves in peril - they threaten all wildlife and the Endangered Species Act itself. Wolves are being used as pawns in a larger effort to sink the ark that provides for the conservation of all animals.
Please contact members of Congress and the Secretary of the Interior today and urge them to oppose any anti-wolf legislation.
You will be most effective if you call personally or send an email in your own words. Whether you call or write, please be polite so that your message will be heard. Remember, you will most likely connect with a staffer who will pass your message along.
Sample message for phone calls:
Start by identifying yourself and where you’re calling from.
I am calling to urge [the Senator, the Congressman, Secretary Jewell] to oppose any anti-wolf legislation or riders. Legislation that removes wolves’ protections undermines the Endangered Species Act, and places all wildlife in danger. Appropriations bills and other must-pass legislation should be kept clean of anti-wolf and other controversial riders. Thank you.
Sample message for email:
Please oppose any anti-wolf legislation or riders. Wolves play a key role in keeping our nation’s wildlands healthy and they have barely begun to recover in many places, including the Southwest, where only 83 Mexican gray wolves were found in the wild at last official count. Federal protections are necessary to allow struggling populations of wolves to survive and expand into suitable habitat.
Decisions about endangered wildlife should be based on science rather than political whims. Legislation that removes wolves’ protections undermines the Endangered Species Act, a popular, important law enacted with overwhelming bi-partisan support. Without a strong Endangered Species Act, we face a future devoid of the rich diversity of wildlife that should be our national legacy. Bills that undermine the ESA threaten all wolves and all wildlife.
Appropriations bills and other must-pass legislation should be kept clean of anti-wolf and other controversial riders. Legislation of importance to the entire country should not be held hostage by special interests.
Poll after poll has shown consistently that the American public supports wolf recovery. People all over the world are rooting for our wolves. We have a responsibility to ourselves, the world, and future generations to ensure the recovery of these important animals that were hunted, poisoned and trapped to near extinction.
Again, I urge you to oppose any and all legislative attempts to remove protections for wolves.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
[Your name and address}
For a state that is purported to have only two gray wolves, in a zoo, certain Utah Congressional members appear to spend a great deal of time, effort, and money towards making sure that wolves in the USA are removed from protections under the Endangered Species Act.
April 30, 2015
Utah pays high priced lobbyist to delist wolves
March 25, 2013
72 Members of Congress Urge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Delist the Gray Wolf From the Endangered Species Act
A bipartisan group of 72 Members of Congress have written to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to urge that the Agency delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the Continental United States.
The letter was spearheaded by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Barrasso (R-WY), and Reps. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Doc Hastings (R-WA), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.
In the letter, the Members of Congress write that “[w]olves are not an endangered species and do not merit federal protections. The full delisting of the species and the return of the management of wolf populations to State governments is long overdue. As you know, State governments are fully qualified to responsibly manage wolf populations and are able to meet both the needs of local communities and wildlife populations.”
The lawmakers added that an unmanaged wolf population poses a threat to the communities and surrounding livestock and indigenous wildlife, but that “currently State wildlife officials have their hands tied any time wolves are involved.” They add that State wildlife managers “need to be able to respond to the needs of their native wildlife without being burdened by the impediments of the federal bureaucracy created by the ESA.”
In addition to Hatch and Barrasso, Senators signing the letter were :
Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
Dean Heller (R-NV)
Mike Lee (R-UT)
Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
James Risch (R-ID)
John Thune (R-ND)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Members of the House signing the letter in addition to Lummis and Hastings were :
Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Dan Benishek (R-MI)
Rob Bishop (R-UT)
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Howard Coble (R-NC)
Tom Cole (R-OK)
Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
Steven Daines (R-MT)
Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
Stephen Fincher (R-TN)
Bob Gibbs (R-OH)
Sam Graves (R-MO)
Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
Bill Johnson (R-OH)
Steve King (R-IA)
John Kline (R-MN),
Doug Lamalfa (R-CA)
Bob Latta (R-OH)
Blayne Luetkemeyer (R-MO)
Kenny Marchant (R-TX)
Jim Matheson (D-UT)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Candice Miller (R-MI)
Jeff Miller (R-FL)
Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX)
Kristi Noem (R-SD)
Alan Nunnelee (R-MS)
Steve Palazzo (R-MS)
Collin Peterson (D-MN)
Mike Pompeo (R-KS)
Jim Renacci (R-OH)
Reid Ribble (R-WI)
Dennis Ross (R-FL)
Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Steve Scalise (R-LA)
David Schweikert (R-AZ)
Austin Scott (R-GA)
Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Terri Sewell (D-AL)
Adrian Smith (R-NE)
Steve Southerland (R-FL)
Chris Stewart (R-UT)
Steve Stivers (R-OH)
Steve Stockman (R-TX)
Marlin Stutzman (R-TX)
Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
Tim Walz (D-MN)
Randy Weber (R-TX)
Lynn Westmoreland (GA)
Rob Wittman (R-VA)
Don Young (R-AK)
To view a signed copy of the letter, click HERE. http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/2cbf712a-15cc-4f3d-b56b-cf577e651753/2013%20March%2022,%20wolf%20delist%20letter%20to%20Dan%20Ashe.pdf
The full text of the letter is below:
The Honorable Dan Ashe
Director
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Dear Director Ashe:
We understand the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is in the process of reviewing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery status of the gray wolf in the lower 48 States and is preparing to announce the delisting of the species. We support the nationwide delisting of wolves and urge you to move as quickly as possible on making this a reality. We were supportive of the USFWS decision in 2009 when most wolves were delisted in the Northern Rocky Mountains, again in 2011 when wolves in the Great Lake States were delisted, and the 2012 delisting in Wyoming. It is unfortunate that these decisions were met with lawsuits from environmental activists.
Wolves are not an endangered species and do not merit federal protections. The full delisting of the species and the return of the management of wolf populations to State governments is long overdue. As you know, State governments are fully qualified to responsibly manage wolf populations and are able to meet both the needs of local communities and wildlife populations.
Unmanaged wolves are devastating to livestock and indigenous wildlife. Currently State wildlife officials have their hands tied any time wolves are involved. They need to be able to respond to the needs of their native wildlife without being burdened by the impediments of the federal bureaucracy created by the ESA. During the four decades that wolves have had ESA protections, there has been an uncontrolled and unmanaged growth of wolf populations resulting in devastating impacts on hunting and ranching in America as well as tragic damages to historically strong and healthy herds of moose, elk, big horn sheep, and mule deer.
As you consider these much needed changes to federal protections with regard to the gray wolf, we urge you to expand the delisting of the species to all of the lower 48 states. It is critical that the states be given the ability to properly manage all of the species within their boundaries.
Sincerely,
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So, here are the petitions we've found to tell them that you disagree.
If you have another, let us know?
Thank you!
Help protect wolves
Tell Congress to stop undermining the Endangered Species Act
H.R.884, H.R. 843, H.R.1985
Halt the killing of ( Alaska ) Denali National Park Wolves
Don’t Remove the Last Remaining Wolf Protections
Help Stop the Wolf Carnage in Idaho
Sign the Citizens’ Wolf Recovery Vision Statement
Repeal the new wolf hunting and trapping regulations
Tell USFWS: Don't give up on Red Wolf recovery
Please take action to defeat anti wolf bill
H.R.1985 introduced by Rep. Newhouse.
USA state Congressional contacts
and language of the bill can be found here:
http://waronwilderness.blogspot.com/p/gray-wolves.html
Thank you!
Please contact your USA Congressional senators and representatives, and ask them to vote NO on proposed anti gray wolf bill : H.R.1985.
“To prohibit treatment of gray wolves in Washington, Oregon, and Utah as endangered species, and for other purposes.”
Rep. Newhouse Introduces Legislation to Remove Gray Wolf from Endangered Species Act List
You can find your U.S.A. senator email contacts here:
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What entails being an activist working
for the protection of our Gray Wolves?
The answer to that question depends on where you stand concerning how you see what our wolves represent to us.
To some of us, wolves are an apex predator species.
This means they are top dog of the wild in the environment they inhabit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_predator
http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/gray_wolf/big_game/predators.html
The timeline of the Gray Wolf Story is here:
http://www.wolf.org/wow/united-states/gray-wolf-timeline/
This is why the current battle for gray wolf protection under the Endangered Species Act is so very important.
So that we do not see history repeat itself.
I am not a wolf biologist.
I am not employed by a Non Government Organization.
I do not work for any branch of the USFWS.
But I can read, and what I see happening pisses me off to no end.
Our gray wolves are the victims of political warfare in the USA Congress.
Bill in Congress would remove protections for Great Lakes wolves
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_27312693/bill-would-remove-protections-wolves-4-states-including
Bills to end Endangered Species Act protections for wolves introduced in Congress
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/3677555-bills-end-endangered-species-act-protections-wolves-introduced-congress
Lummis, Ribble Introduce State Wolf Management Bill
Bill restores state management of wolves in Wyoming, Western Great Lakes
http://lummis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398200
You might think that maybe your voice has no reach?
Nope.
We pushed and pushed for well over a year, and managed to submit 1,611,111 comments to the USFWS about their question to keep wolves listed as endangered species under the ESA.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0073
The USFWS did decide to protect wolves.
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/02/20/2015-03503/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-reinstatement-of-final-rules-for-the-gray-wolf-in
Then about a week later, it appeared that they had a change of heart.
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/obama-administration-sides-with-hunters-over-protection-of-gray-wolves-150303?news=855838
Well, I have had no change of heart.
Wolves need to be protected from misguided politicians who can not stand their ground, in order to pass legislation against trophy hunting groups and Big Oil land barons who would love to see endangered status of wolves removed, in order to gain access to wolf home land.
Come on Wolves, we still have work to do. Please do not bail on our wild canines yet…they are counting on us to be their voice.
Please take action by contacting your state representatives and senators, ask them to vote NO on H.R.843 and H.R.884 >
http://nowolfhaters.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-7-2015-congress-threatens.html?spref=tw
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