Take Action: Tell the Bush Administration It Has No License to Kill Wolves!

Tell the Bush Administration It Has No License to Kill Wolves!

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 -- while they’re still on the endangered species list.

Submit your Official Citizen Comment opposing this disastrous plan.

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Send this message to:

Ed Bangs, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator

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Dear Mr. Bangs,

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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 targeted levels, 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 before they 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 5 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.

Sincerely,

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