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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wolves in the lower 48 states to be stripped of all Endangered Species Act protections. Urgent! [View all]
http://wolfwatcher.org/news/all-news/keep-wolves-protected-in-the-lower-48/The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to strip wolves across the lower 48 states of all Endangered Species Act protections! Wolves have only just begun to recover in large portions of the Pacific Northwest, California, southern Rocky Mountains and Northeast.
Retaining protections for wolves in the lower 48 will not impact the delisting decisions in the northern Rocky Mountains or western Great Lakes. However, it will retain protections for a small number of wolves in the West wolves that have slowly been moving back into historically occupied areas like the southern Rocky Mountains and Northeast. These wolves may never recover if this plan is implemented.
Right now members of Congress are ready to step in. Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) are circulating a letter to the USFWS opposing the premature removal of wolf protections. U.S. Representatives Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jim Moran (D-VA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), and David Cicilline (D-RI) have already signed on as co-signatories.
Letter, https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7xYnjjogLTJWHJsSDc5SHhNM0E/preview?pli=1
ACTION: Please call and write to your member of Congress to urge him or her to save wolves by signing onto Reps. DeFazio and Markeys letter. Remind them that removing protections for lower 48 wolves is premature and will prevent their recovery in portions of their former historical range.
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Wolves in the lower 48 states to be stripped of all Endangered Species Act protections. Urgent! [View all]
G_j
Feb 2013
OP
Brilliant, right after they let hunters slaughter 2/3 of the wolves in the West
joeybee12
Feb 2013
#3
Terrible. I feel such a spiritual connection to wolves, perhaps my spirit animal.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#5
I can certainly understand keeping this particular subspecies on the endangered list.
Peter cotton
Feb 2013
#18
"not threatened AT A GLOBAL LEVEL"....we are not talking globally though are we?
truebrit71
Feb 2013
#14
Sorry but that is not accurate. There is no such thing as a "common" wolf in the lower 48 states.
truebrit71
Feb 2013
#24
This will be the topic of my tomorrow's calls to "our" representation in D.C. Thanks for posting! nt
patrice
Feb 2013
#26
I told Alec in Kevin Yoder's office what a great environmental PR opportunity this is & asked
patrice
Feb 2013
#34