Urgent: Protest Bush's Plan to Kill Yellowstone Area Wolves

December 28, 2007

"Rebecca Young, Care2 Action Alerts" Dec 28, 2007 8:27 AM ebbrewpunx Urgent: Protest Bush's Plan to Kill Yellowstone Area Wolves

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Wolf Emergency: Protest Plan to Kill Yellowstone Area Wolves Now Under Idaho's lax wolf plan, even pups could be killed.

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Hi Fraggle,

While most Americans have been celebrating the holidays, officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration have been working behind the scenes to pave the way for the killing of hundreds of wolves in the Greater Yellowstone area.

Don't let them get away with it! Urge U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to abandon his efforts to allow states to start killing wolves and stop promoting the premature de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.

Over the last several weeks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been quietly moving forward with rule changes that would allow officials in Idaho and Wyoming to begin killing wolves even before gray wolves are removed from the list of federally protected threatened and endangered species.

This latest proposal would jump start plans to use fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and other means to kill hundreds of wolves in Idaho, leaving just over 200 wolves in the state. In fact, three-quarters of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest could be removed ... even before they are de-listed.

And hundreds of wolves in Wyoming could be shot and trapped under the new rules, whether wolves are removed from the endangered and threatened species list or not.

A decision on this devastating proposal is expected in the next few weeks. Take a stand now. Please email Secretary Kempthorne right now and let him know that you oppose any proposal that would threaten the long-term future of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region.

Our partners at Defenders of Wildlife are mustering their resources to fight these terrible proposals in the weeks ahead. But right now, we need you to speak out for wolves with your message.

Thank you for acting today to save wolves!

Rebecca Young,Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

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