The Obama administration is giving up on America's wolves. BUT WE ARE NOT!!!!

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Folks?
We have petitioned for #KEEPWOLVESLISTED
We have emailed President Barack Obama.
We have emailed Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.
We have emailed our state senators and representatives.
We have emailed Nancy Sutley ~ Chair on the Council of Environmental Council.

Looks like they all said take a hike to us.
Normally I would just say screw it, who needs them.
But I can't do that in this instance. 
If we think for a moment that we have another 10 years to wait and see if states like Idaho and Montana will "wake up and see the light" concerning their devastating approach to wolf predator "control"?
We are going to be reading the sadest news of all.
Our North American Gray Wolf population has been declared extinct under the Endangered Species Act.
We knew it, we saw it coming.
But we do not have to accept that nightmare.
Let's WAKE UP!!

Do you people love your wolves enough to get on a bus , in your car , on a plane, or on a train and rally for ONE day with your fellow wolf people?
Some of you do. I know I do. 
We have 90 days to plan this.
Here is Lisa's take on it:
It is time for another march on Washington, D.C. for our animals.

Let's do this folks!!!
Please.
I know we can, and we have wolf folks around the globe who would show up on their politicos lawn on that same day.

Aren't our wolves worth one freeking day of our lives?
Are any of us content with looking at beautiful wolf photos knowing all the while that this is their last stand?
I'm not.
I don't want their photo.
I want their lives to be spared.
From the idiot redneck Bubba wolfhater hunters that occupy my country.
I am sorry that my President and his administration did not hear us the FIRST TWO times in the last 8 years.
With your help, he won't have the option of making that 3 times.

Let's march on Washington, D.C.
#ForOurWolves

Let's do this folks, we have too much to lose now.
We have until August 2013, please help me to organize by suggesting a date in which you could make it. Thank you.

~Heidi

This is from: Noah Greenwald ~ Endangered species program director, Center for Biological Diversity

The Obama administration is giving up on America's wolves.

On Friday morning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its plans to strip Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the lower 48 states.

This decision, if enacted, prematurely ends one of the most important wildlife recovery stories in America's history.

Wolves today occupy just 5 percent of their historic habitat in the continental United States. Apparently that 5 percent is enough for the Obama administration to declare victory and walk away.
Many of the nation's top wolf scientists disagree. They have criticized the wildlife agency for misrepresenting their research and failing to rely on the best scientific evidence on wolf recovery.

This proposal severely limits any chance wolves will ever return to hundreds of square miles of prime wolf habitat in places like the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, California, the southern Rocky Mountains or the Northeast. These are places far from people and with plentiful prey to support them - places where healthy populations of wolves can survive and thrive.

Decades ago the federal government made a commitment to save and recover wolves, recognizing the ecological importance of these top predators. We also recognized that we have a moral obligation to help these animals that, for decades, were the victim of ruthless government programs to drive them off the landscape.

Prematurely stripping federal protections for wolves across most of the lower 48 will certainly raise the risk that they'll be increasingly shot and trapped.

In the northern Rocky Mountains, more than 1,100 wolves have been killed since protections were removed in 2011 and this year populations declined by 7 percent.

There's no reason to expect this type of killing won't continue once nearly all wolves in the continental United States lose their protections.

And by letting that happen, we'll be foreclosing on the possibility that wolves can, at some point, return to many of their ancestral lands in mountains, forest, valleys and plains. Left alone to do their job, wolves sustain a critical natural balance in those places, whether it's keeping deer and coyote populations in check or keeping elk and other prey species on the move so they don't devour and trample streamsides that songbirds and beavers need to survive.

Wolves deserve a chance to return to the American landscape. They will never be as abundant as they once were across North America, and nobody expects that. But restoring them to just 5 percent of where they once lived, then calling it quits and hunting them down again by the thousands? That's just wrong.

!!!UPDATE 5-28-2013: NOW, MORE THAN EVER ~SPEAK OUT FOR OUR WOLVES!!!!!!

http://nowolfhaters.blogspot.com/p/email-congress-state-by-state.html

These are emails to use for Secretary Sally Jewell + USA Congress. There are also 8 petitions to #KEEPWOLVESLISTED under the Federal Protections of the Endangered Species Act =ESA

http://nowolfhaters.blogspot.com/p/email-congress-state-by-state.html

Below is the most recent action petition action. Thank you for your help!!!

This is the email I got from Wild Earth Guardians on Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Now, More Than Ever, Speak Out for Wolves

Dear Heidi, 

Right now is the time to speak up for America’s wolves!

The U.S. Department of Interior’s shameful plan to remove federal protections for wolves everywhere in the U.S. is being reconsidered. Your pressure, and recent media exposure, has led the agency to re-evaluate its scorched earth wolf plan.

But we think the Interior Department may be stalling, hoping the pressure and scrutiny will just go away.

Help us make sure that doesn’t happen. Please call upon the new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, today and demand that she protect America’s wolves.

Wolves have already lost their protections in the Great Lakes region and in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming because of pressure from the livestock industry, hunting groups, and the National Rifle Association.

We’ve seen what’s happened as a result. In the Northern Rockies it’s been a blood bath with more than 1,000 wolves already killed. And now Montana is considering increasing the number of wolves that can be taken.

If the Interior Department gets their way, they would remove protections for wolves everywhere else in the lower 48: on the West Coast, the Southern Rocky Mountains (Colorado and Utah), and in the East—places where they don’t even currently reside.   

Wolves have been restored to less than 8% of their historic range in the U.S.—that is simply not enough.

Tell Interior Secretary Jewell to forever mothball this horrible plan for wolves.

Even highly-endangered Mexican wolves will wither under the Interior’s plan—they would never be allowed to recover outside of a small core area in southern New Mexico and Arizona.

The Interior Department is likely to soon move rapidly forward with its rotten plan, so speak now!

Wolves are necessary for vibrant ecosystems and biological diversity. These beautiful animals need Americans to stand by them and demand that they be conserved, not handed off to states that want to completely destroy them. Call on Secretary Jewell today!

For the Wild Ones,

John C. Horning
Executive Director
WildEarth Guardians
jhorning@wildearthguardians.org


Wolves were recently and prematurely removed from the protections afforded to them under the Endangered Species Act.



See PEER’s Lawsuit demanding that secret agency meeting records see sunlight.

Read scientists' letters to Secretary Sally Jewell calling for immediate wolf conservation measures:

From the American Society of Mammologists

From Conservation Biology Scientists


Check out our map, which shows every state where wolves would be subject to state shooting and trapping plans instead of federal protection.

Scientists to President Obama : DON'T END WOLF PROTECTIONS

Courtesy fineartamerica~dot~com

Scientists to Obama: Don’t End Wolf Protections

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Animal Connection

WASHINGTON— In two sharply worded letters sent to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today, prominent scientists argued for continued protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and criticized a draft federal proposal to remove those protections for being premature and failing to follow the best available science. One of the letters came from the American Society of Mammalogists, the other from 16 prominent biologists.

“The science simply doesn’t support removal of protections for wolves,” said Dr. Brad Bergstrom with the American Society of Mammalogists. “Wolves are altogether absent or barely beginning to recover in large swathes of the country that still contain excellent habitat.”

Signatories to the letter include several scientists who conducted research that’s relied on by the government in its draft proposed rule. Those scientists are now criticizing the agency for misrepresenting their work, stating: “Collectively, we represent many of the scientists responsible for the research referenced in the draft rule,” and “We do not believe that the rule reflects the conclusions of our work or the best available science concerning the recovery of wolves.”

“No animal is more important to the North American landscape than gray wolves,” said Bergstrom. “The science shows that wolves are not yet recovered in the Pacific Northwest, California, the southern Rockies and the Northeast.”

As noted in the scientists’ letter, research conducted following the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park found that wolves “caused changes in elk numbers and behavior which then facilitated recovery of streamside vegetation, benefitting beavers, fish and songbirds.”

“In these two letters, scientists are simply asking the administration to acknowledge what the research clearly shows — that gray wolves are far from recovered,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “There’s still time to reverse course and do what’s best for these beautiful animals and the landscape we all share.”

Earlier this month, leaders of six national environmental groups also sent Jewell a letter urging her to keep wolf protections in place and last week, Representative Raúl Grijalva sent a similar letter.

Learn more about gray wolves .

DECISION ON DELISTING WOLF PROTECTIONS UNDER ESA IN LOWER 48 STATES DELAYED

FOLKS! YOUR EMAILS ARE WORKING! LETS KEEP AT IT AND SUPPORT THESE FOLKS. WE ARE ALL ONE FOR THE WOLVES! THANK YOU!

WOLF ACTION UPDATE: THE MONTANA GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY RECEIVED OVER 5,000 E-MAILS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS!
Wolves of the Rockies texted us with this phenomenal news. Our deepest thanks to our entire H.A.N.D.S. network.
NOW, LET'S KEEP MOVING & SHARING!

Adelheid Adelliam

STOP WOLF HUNTS (Discussion)  -  May 20, 2013

Do you see what I see here? Am I reading this correctly???
Adelheid Adelliam originally shared:
!!!!!THANK YOU > THE WOLF ARMY
Great news...and it also means that we have to keep the pressure up....

We keep that pressure up here:
http://nowolfhaters.blogspot.com/p/email-congress-state-by-state.html
PLEASE HELP! And let's make this GREAT NEWS FOR WOLVES! FOREVER
SHARE with everyone you think will send an email. Thank you! ~Heidi and Olaf

Let's make the headline below read GREAT NEWS FOR WOLVES ! FOREVER

GREAT NEWS FOR WOLVES! FOR NOW
http://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/great-news-for-wolves-for-now/

Decision on wolf protections in Lower 48 delayed...

BILLINGS — Federal wildlife officials are postponing a much-anticipated decision on whether to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states.

In a court filing Monday, government attorneys say “a recent unexpected delay” is indefinitely holding up action on the predators. No further explanation was offered.

Gray wolves are under protection as an endangered species and have recovered dramatically from widespread extermination in recent decades.

More than 6,000 of the animals now roam the continental U.S. Most live in the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes, where protections already have been lifted.

A draft proposal to lift protections elsewhere drew strong objections when it was revealed last month.

Wildlife advocates and some members of Congress argue that the wolf’s recovery is incomplete because the animal occupies just a fraction of its historical range.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/viewart/20130520/NEWS01/305200018/

Photo credit : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
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DON'T PULL THE PLUG ON AMERICA'S WOLVES

Don't Pull the Plug on America's Wolves

by Noah Greenwald

Late last week, a draft government rule that will remove Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the lower 48 states was leaked to the press.

If it's enacted, this rule will put a tragic end to one of the most important wildlife recovery stories in America's history.

Wolves today wander just 5 percent of their historic habitat in the continental United States. It's simply far too early to declare victory. Pulling the plug on the wolf recovery program now will virtually guarantee that wolf populations will stagnate and these beautiful animals will never again roam prime wolf habitat in places like the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, California, the southern Rocky Mountains or the Northeast.

In all of these areas, there are vast tracts of land that scientists have determined have the space and prey to support healthy wolf populations.

All that's required of us is a little tolerance and a little imagination -- and the willingness to follow through on our decades-long commitment to these incredible creatures.

There were once about two million wolves in North America. Most were wiped out in the late 1800s and early 1900s as European settlements moved west and government-sponsored extermination programs were used to protect cows and sheep placed on landscapes occupied by wolves for tens of thousands of years.

With the passing of the Endangered Species Act under President Nixon, and a more enlightened view of the vital ecosystem role played by predators, we shored up and encouraged wolf populations in the Great Lakes region, launched a successful reintroduction in the northern Rockies and, far less successfully, brought Mexican gray wolves back to parts of Arizona and New Mexico.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in its latest proposal, says that's good enough for wolf recovery. Its new plan would remove federal protections for all wolves in the lower 48 states except those in the Southwest (which undeniably and desperately need protection since there are just 75 or so -- and a scant three breeding pairs -- in the wild).

Following removal of protections for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains and western Great Lakes in 2011, states in these regions enacted aggressive hunting and trapping seasons that are designed to drastically reduce wolf populations. In the northern Rocky Mountains, more than 1,100 wolves have been killed since protections were removed and this year populations declined by 7 percent.

It's clear that states are going to let old prejudices against wolves drive their management, and we can't rely on them to let wolves move into new areas. That's why it's crucial that wolves continue to get the help that only the federal Endangered Species Act can give them.

Wolves belong in our mountains and forests and valleys and plains. They sustain a critical natural balance in those places, whether it's keeping deer and coyote populations in check or keeping elk and other prey species on the move so they don't devour and trample streamsides that songbirds and beavers need to survive. Wolves have an important role to play. We have to let them play it.

No, wolves will never be as abundant as they once were across North America, and nobody expects that. But restoring them to just 5 percent of where they once lived, then calling it quits and hunting them down again by the thousands? That's just wrong.

Follow Noah Greenwald on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Noah_Ark_757

PLEASE SIGN ALL PETITIONS AND SHARE!!!


Don't End Federal Protection for Gray Wolves
http://www.leftaction.com/action/dont-end-federal-protection-wolves
http://www.leftaction.com/action/dont-end-federal-protection-wolves

Wolves Need Federal Protection: Petitioning Sally Jewell:
http://www.change.org/petitions/wolves-need-federal-protection

Wolves In The Lower-48 States Need Your Help
https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1455

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Endangered Species Act via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

Endangered Species Act | Overview
When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, it recognized that our rich natural heritage is of “esthetic, ecological, educational, recreational, and scientific value to our Nation and its people.” It further expressed concern that many of our nation’s native plants and animals were in danger of becoming extinct.

The purpose of the ESA is to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. It is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Commerce Department’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The FWS has primary responsibility for terrestrial and freshwater organisms, while the responsibilities of NMFS are mainly marine wildlife such as whales and anadromons fish such as salmon.

Under the ESA, species may be listed as either endangered or threatened. “Endangered” means a species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. “Threatened” means a species is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future. All species of plants and animals, except pest insects, are eligible for listing as endangered or threatened. For the purposes of the ESA, Congress defined species to include subspecies, varieties, and, for vertebrates, distinct population segments.

Please see FWS link below to learn more and for all the details, download the ESA fact sheet. [120KB]:

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/