They Want to Kill Wolves.

[wolven7]

The following is copied whole cloth from greygirlbeast's journal:

[This from National Resources Defense Council:

The gray wolf's extraordinary comeback from extinction in Greater Yellowstone is one of America's greatest environmental success stories. But the Bush Administration is now pushing a proposal that would authorize the killing of some 700 wolves — more than half of the current population in the northern Rockies. Speak out now for wolf protection and help shield the wolves of Wyoming and Idaho from the coming crossfire.

We must stop the Bush Administration's plan to declare open season on the wolves of Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho. Once approved, Wyoming and Idaho intend to begin exterminating up to half their gray wolves — by aerial gunning and other cruel methods — as early as this fall.

Submit your Official Citizen Comment, opposing this disastrous plan, before August 6.

Is it even necessary to justify an objection to this crazy, sick shit? Please, take a moment to read and sign the comment that's being sent Ed Bangs, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator. You may find it here.

The statement 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. And thank you.']

Do I need to ask you to save wolves? Do I need to...

Just sign it. Send it. Pass it to everyone you know.

Do it now!

Comments

Not to sound hopeful,

[davidsfoley.livejournal.com]

but check this (http://www.fws.gov/news/newsreleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=B5F416CE-001C-5380-C2926698AA2AD069) out. It looks like some people in Fish and Wildlife aren't in Bush's pocket.

Re: Not to sound hopeful,

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Some hope, then. Thanks for that.

[thurisazshole.livejournal.com]

curiously - to save one species, you put others in jeopardy? what ever happened to natural selection? yeah, i know enough of the history of the grey wolf in that particular area - it kinda pisses me off that they're gonna intervene - but places like that, are dedicated to every species in the area, not just one. tough to juggle. why muddle in the first place?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Because, by the very act of deforestation for cattle ranching and shepherding, Sport Hunting, and other things some necessary for human survival-- No, Comfort-- some not, have depleted the population of the wolf's natural prey, as well as the wolves themselves, due to the farmers picking them off, when they do what they can to simply Survive.

In short, because we got them into this mess, in the first place, some of us are trying to get them out, and when we're back on some kind of Actually Even Keel, we can stop mucking them about.

That's my reasoning. I don't know about anyone else.

[thurisazshole.livejournal.com]

makes sense - when you start something, you need to finish it, by gods. if we didn't fuck with 'em in the first place this might not have happened to begin with.