Well, at least there’s a chance. Please read and follow the link below. The form letter can be used. IT’S ALL VERY EASY!!!! We need to make sure they are not delisted.
The US FWS has extended the comment period (to October 28,
2013) for the federal delisting of wolves nationwide.
Please take a second and send your
comment to USFWS and ask to maintain the Endangered Species Act protection for
gray wolves.
To make it easier Rhonda has enclosed copy of a letter
that you can use / modify.
All the instructions
how and where to submit your comments are at the end of this sample letter.
Please act now, tomorrow could be too late.
Thank you as usual for taking action.
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September 2, 2013
Director Daniel Ashe
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Dear Director Ashe,
I am writing to you in your capacity as Director of
US Fish and Wildlife Services to request in the most urgent manner possible
that USFWS maintain the Endangered Species Act protection for gray wolves
currently protected under the Act. I do NOT accept in any way, based on any
information provided, that wolves are recovered as a species. Wolves have only
returned to 5% of their former habitat; this is strictly politically motivated
as I am sure you are well aware. If not politically motivated, then why is it
the bald eagle was delisted in 2007, but we have not allowed open hunting and
trapping? Why then are we even contemplating doing that with wolves? The stated
goal of the Endangered Species Act is to save species from extinction and to
fully recover the species by removing threats to its survival.
As you are well aware, there has been much
discussion, and indeed outrage by the fact that politics once again weighed in
to dictate the decisions concerning the fate of the gray wolf, rather than best
science available decisions. While I applaud the decision of the USFWS to put
on hold for an indefinite time, according to FWS spokesman Gavin Shire on
August 12th (as per the LA Times), I would urge you to allow the PEER review of
the well qualified scientists and biologists to be reviewed carefully by USWFS
and that protection is maintained for the gray wolves currently protected under
the Act.
In some areas of Idaho close to 700 wolves,
including lactating females and pups, can be killed at anytime. In the state of
Wyoming 83 percent of that states wolves can be killed year round without a
license. The state of Montana will allow a “bag limit” of up to five wolves per
hunter/trapper. I defy anyone to call this scientific stewardship of this apex,
keystone predator; necessary to provide balance to our eco system!
Director Ashe, I hope your decisions on the gray
wolf will echo the integral role you played in responding to a 2005 complaint
that agency geologist had botched an evaluation of the habitant needs of
panthers. The protection of the gray wolf against those who would seek to
completely remove them from the landscape, from their rightful homeland,
certainly deserves no less.
Thank you for your consideration.
When you have accessed this webpage look for :
“Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus), Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi)”
Now look to the top right hand corner of the page
and locate the button that says: “Comment Now”
This will bring you to the comment page. Please cut
and paste the provided comment, modify the provided comment our use your own
words to tell Director Dan Ashe and other decision makers your feelings on why
we need to protect all of Americas wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
