IMPORTANT: Wolves Given Extra Time: Comment Period to Prevent Delisitng Moved to Oct. 28. GET ON IT!

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.

HERE'S WHAT TO DO

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.

Sincerely,

To submit your comments please follow the link provided.
Regulations.gov
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0073-0001

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.

The Worst: Popular Alpha Female Wolf of Yellowstone Is Shot Dead By Scum Hunters Outside of the Park

 First, remember that Obama and Salazar gave the green light to wolf killing.  Learn more about this heartless decision that has opened the floodgates to the wolf massacre that is occurring here: Wyoming the Newest Sadistic State to Allow Wolf Killing: Thanks to Obama and Salazar Decision, Can SHOOT ON SIGHT! What You Can Do 

If I say what I want to say, I’ll be cited for threats.  This truly is heart-dropping news, and just proves how absolutely scummy hunters are.  They couldn’t wait to see her come out of Yellowstone so that they could cowardly shoot her from a distance.

I have a challenge for you so-called tough guy hunters: Take a wolf using no weapons at all.  Nope, can’t do it, can you?  Just sit far away and shoot one.  And you think you did something hard?  BS.  I hope you get it soon.

As you’ll read in the stories below, “Known only as 832F, wolf was a favorite among visitors and researchers trying to understand the species' movements.”  Apparently she was magnificent.  FU to you cowardly hunters.

Here are some links to the story and also to a great Facebook page that you need to follow to keep up on the U.S. wolf massacre.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wolves-of-the-Rockies/166227613433097 - “like” this page.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/09/yellowstone-female-wolf-dead-hunters?fb=optOut

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/10

Alaska Continues Aerial Hunting (Killing) of Wolves: What You Can Do

“Since 2003, Alaska's aerial hunting program has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 wolves”

All I can say is that we might actually have a chance now that the evil animal-hating Sarah Palin quit as governor. So, please read below or follow this link and act. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=WolfAerialHunting&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_AERIALWOLF_0223_CTG

Help Us End Alaska's Aerial Wolf Slaughter

Urge Alaska Governor Sean Parnell to end the state's unfounded aerial wolf-killing program

19,280 signatures sent on 4/6. Please continue to support this important cause by signing if you haven't already. Thank you! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=WolfAerialHunting&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_AERIALWOLF_0223_CTG

Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

Since 2003, Alaska's aerial hunting program has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 wolves. During these hunts, wolves are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animals point blank. Sign the petition below and urge Alaska Governor Sean Parnell to end the state's irresponsible and cruel aerial wolf-killing program immediately.

Government Wants to Kill Wolves Again: What You Can Do to Speak Out Against

By the way, just because I post from other groups doesn’t always mean I’m a full supporter of that group. I’m just passing on the horrible news.

Seems the government wants to kill Wolves again. They seem to love doing this.

Please visit this link to see what you can do to speak out against: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=WolfKilling&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_WOLFID

Help Stop the Federal Wolf Killing Plan

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=WolfKilling&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_WOLFID

Speak out against a federal plan to use aerial gunning and poisonous gas to kill entire wolf packs in Idaho.

Goal: 30,000 • Progress: 502

Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

The federal Wildlife Services agency (a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) is the primary wolf-killer in the United States— and now wants to expand their wolf-killing operations. They plan to work with Idaho officials to eliminate up to 80 percent of the wolves in north-central Idaho by land and from the air.

Their plan also includes killing entire packs— including gassing helpless wolf pups in their dens— and surgically sterilizing alpha wolf pairs.

Wolfs Lose Federal Protection Under The Endangered Species Act: Obama Makes Bush-Like Move and Opens Gate for Wolf Hunting / Killing / Slaughter

I really don’t have to say much, and just let this quote speak for the reality of this situation and Obama’s ridiculous Bush-like decision (sadly many more to come): “The Obama administration, in one of its least popular moves with environmentalists, upheld a Bush era decision that gray wolves have returned from the brink of extinction and no longer require federal protection. That decision took effect today, opening the gate for hunting in Idaho and Montana, which share a population of some 1,300 wolves.”

Seems like Obama is not only like Bush in other areas, he’s also showing more and more that he’s no friend of animal rights either.

Article:

Wolf delisting takes effect today

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-04-gray-wolf-delisting-obama/

Wolf-people, give a howl for your lupine brethren, who lose federal protection under the Endangered Species Act in much of the northern Rocky Mountains and upper Midwest today.

The Obama administration, in one of its least popular moves with environmentalists, upheld a Bush era decision that gray wolves have returned from the brink of extinction and no longer require federal protection. That decision took effect today, opening the gate for hunting in Idaho and Montana, which share a population of some 1,300 wolves.

Wildlife groups have filed notice that they will sue to overturn the decision, saying state management plans don’t provide enough protection for the species that was listed as endangered in 1974.

Last Friday I proposed that “Save the wolves” campaigns typify a strain of old-school environmentalism that is being swallowed by the much broader movement against climate change. The poster-species for the new environmentalism, the polar bear, faces its own day of reckoning this week:

Later in the week, the legal status of polar bears will become clearer when the Obama administration must decide whether to overturn a last-minute Bush move that denied the arctic mammals key protections under the Endangered Species Act. Acknowledging that the polar bear is threatened by a melting habitat, Bush officials still ruled that endangered species protections cannot apply to causes originating outside of their habitat (in other words, the greenhouse gas emissions heating up the polar regions). Obama has until May 9 to overturn the decision; otherwise, it stands.

Greenwire has a piece on the behind-the-scenes tussle over the polar bear decision; look for more on Grist on this later in the week.

Oh, and it’s also a big week for a little mountainous mammal, the American Pika, whose high-elevation habitat faces climate disruption. KQED’s Climate Watch reports on the pika’s prospects for protection, which ride on decisions from the courts and the Fish and Wildlife Service.