America’s wolves are under attack but it doesn’t have to be that way. Each and every politician, whether they are Tea Party Republicans, moderates from either party or progressive Democrats, must know that from now on if they support or enable the sadistic persecution and criminal massacre of America’s wolves and other native wildlife, they will be outed before their voting constituents and the American public. The free ride for politicians who support this or that just cause, while abandoning America’s native wildllife to animal abusers and brutal killers is over. America’s wildlife is owned by no one and according to the Public Trust Doctrine, they belong to all citizens equally. It is time that all native species are managed in a way that reflects the far more respectful ethical values and collective wisdom of the majority of today, which has evolved to be that all native species must be respected, conserved and protected, for current and future generations and most of all, for the ecological health of the country and the planet. — Robert Goldman, Protect America’s Wolves! petition and action campaign
Dear Geoffrey, We accomplished a good thing for America’s wolves over the past couple of weeks. US Representatives Peter DeFazio of Oregon and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, with help from their fellow US Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, circulated a pro-wolf letter among their 435 colleagues in the US House of Representatives. This letter urged the US Fish & Wildlife Service to keep federal protections in place for America’s wolves in the 45 states where they are still protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Our efforts, YOUR efforts, helped boost the numbers of Congressmen and women who signed on to this letter from 30 to 52 signers, during the last two days of last week! These decent men and women hail from dozens of states from New England to the South to the Upper Midwest, the Rockies, the Southwest and the West Coast. The letter was just delivered to the Director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
Here is the honor roll of those men and women in the US Congress who stepped forward for America’s wolves in their time of need, all 52 of them: (D) = Democrat, (R) = Republican
US Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) of Oregon US Rep. Ed Markey (D) of Massachusetts US Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R) of Pennsylvania US Rep. George Miller (D) of California US Rep. Sander Levin (D) of Michigan US Rep. John Conyers (D) of Michigan US Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California US Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D) of Connecticut US Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D) of Maryland US Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) of Maryland US Rep. Raul Grijalva (D) of Arizona US Rep. Jim Moran (D) of Virginia US Rep. Anna Eshoo (D) of California US Rep. Sam Farr (D) of California US Rep. Floyd Doggett (D) of Texas US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D) of Oregon US Rep. Diana DeGette (D) of Colorado US Rep. James McGovern (D) of Massachusetts US Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D) of California US Rep. Brad Sherman (D) of California US Rep. John Tierney (D) of Massachusetts US Rep. Lois Capps (D) of California US Rep. Barbara Lee (D) of California US Rep. Grace Napolitano (D) of California US Rep. Jim McDermott (D) of Washington State US Rep. William Lacy Clay (D) of Missouri US Rep. Michael Honda (D) of California US Rep. Steve Israel (D) of New York US Rep. Jim Langevin (D) of Rhode Island US Rep. Betty McCollum (D) of Minnesota US Rep. Adam Schiff (D) of California US Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D) of Illinois US Rep. Keith Ellison (D) of Minnesota US Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) of California US Rep. John Sarbanes (D) of Maryland US Rep. Peter Welch (D) of Vermont US Rep. Niki Tsongas (D) of Massachusetts US Rep. James Himes (D) of Connecticut US Rep. Gary Peters (D) of Michigan US Rep. Jared Polis (D) of Colorado US Rep. Paul Tonko (D) of New York US Rep. Judy Chu (D) of California US Rep. Theodore Deutch (D) of Florida US Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) of New Hampshire US Rep. David Cicilline (D) of Rhode Island US Rep. William Keating (D) of Massachusetts US Rep. Madeline Bordallo (D) of Guam (US territory) US Rep. Ron Barber (D) of Arizona US Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D) of New Jersey US Rep. Bradley Schneider (D) of Illinois US Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D) of Arizona US Rep. Grace Meng (D) of New York ________________________________________
HERE’S THE ACTIONS FOR YOU TO TAKE. PLEASE DO IT, PLEASE TAKE ACTION:
(Here’s the phone number of the US Capitol switchboard: 1-202-224-3121. You can call this phone number, ask for your US Rep and you’ll be connected to his or her office.) 1. Is YOUR US Rep. on the honor roll above? If YES, please call and thank him or her for doing the right thing! (at 1-202-224-3121) Encourage them to keep voting to protect America’s wolves and all of America’s native wildlife. It’s very important to do this. Expressing your appreciation and support is the decent thing to do and encourages positive votes in the future.
2. Is YOUR US Rep. missing from this honor roll above? If your US Rep did NOT sign, please call your him or her (at 1-202-224-3121) Ask their staff why your Rep. did not sign the letter? Also, tell them that you, as a constituent and a voter noticed their lack of public support for protecting America’s wolves and how important that is to you.
3. For all wolf defenders, who live in the US or around the world, you are encouraged to contact Dan Ashe, Director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Phone: 1-800-344-9453, EMail: www.fws.gov/duspit/contactus.htm Urge Mr. Ashe to honor the pro-wolf letter he just received from 52 members of the US Congress, by keeping federal protections in place for America’s wolves in the 45 states where they are still federally protected.
Remind your US Rep. (and Mr. Ashe) that science has clearly demonstrated that America’s native wolves and all natural predators are vital for every healthy ecosystem. They keep their prey species healthy and strong, while ensuring biodiversity – a healthy and balanced landscape with the presence of diverse wildlife, plants and trees, and that such healthy landscapes are vital for people, too. Where wolves are wild and free, it has been demonstrated repeatedly that their prey species are not only healthier but these prey populations often increase with wolves on the land! And wolf depridation of cattle is almost non-existent, the cattlemen are lying about wolves. In states with both wolves and cattle, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, wolves take a mere .000029% of cattle, which is statistically just about ZERO. The wolf “problem” is in reality a people problem – a primitive, cultural hatred, by a vocal and brutal minority – of the vital, innocent and beautiful wolf, that must be consigned to the past where it belongs. And finally, without federal protections, we have all witnessed unethical state wildlife agency mis-“management” (= massive killing) that allows for sadistic persecution and slaughter of wolves, including wolf pups, by a bizarre collection of ignorant sport killers, creepy trappers and others who need far more control placed on them than wolves and other vital and innocent native wildlife do. ______________________________________
Stay tuned for more wolf defender actions to come!
Thank you for America’s ecologically vital and beautiful wolves, Robert Goldman Protect America’s Wovles! petition and action campaign http://signon.org/sign/protect-americas-wolves?mailing_id=9980&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=4912027
P.S. Please forward this email to all your respectful, humane and wildlife-loving friends so they can help defend America’s wolves, too! Visit Predator Defense at www.predatordefense.org and view their recently produced video “The Imperiled American Wolf.” It will further inspire you and others to take action to defend wolves NOW when they most need our help!
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Forget Hunters' Feeble Rationalizations and Trust Your Gut Feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior
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Interesting. Only two Republicans signed that letter. Why does that fact not surprise me?
It shouldn’t
Wolf killing in Montana and other states has gotten entirely out of hand. The wolf should be re-listed and protected indefinitely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6X9TjBAnvU
Current wolf management is not management. It exceeds any sense of fair chase or ethical treatment of this animal. It is wolf vendetta season with trapping beyond the hunt season, multiple tags during the hunt season, extended hunt season. It is not based on anything but rancher and sportsmen pushed vendetta and politics, not science. FWP, USFWS, USDA Wildlife Services deserve no respect on this. The states have shown by their killing attitudes and actions that they cannot responsibly manage wolves. The state forces just mentioned are too much in control. The rationales for management are false: They are killing too many elk. The elk population in Montana has increased 37% since wolf reintroduction. They are depredating cattle. No, they are not; they kill only .0029% for which Stockgrowers are reimbursed.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/stop-shooting-wolves-you-maniacs
http://wiwildlifeethic.org/2012/12/04/outstanding-opinion-piece-from-former-huntertrapper/
http://animalconnectionac.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/current-wolf-hunt-management-by-states-may-well-end-scientific-study-of-wolf-behavior-in-the-wild/
“I stopped hunting and trapping long ago. For years, I was ambivalent about speaking out because I accepted the cultural and psychological influences motivating those who grew up considering unnecessary killing a sport. I’ve come to recognize how superficial, shallow, fleeting and self-destructive is this violent indulgence.”
-Bradley Ayers, Veteran and former hunter/trapper.
It is time to end the slaughter, end states’ management, re-list the wolf, and maybe all predators and keep them out of state control. Wildlife agencies are too wedded to sportsmen, ranchers, and local-vocal-yokel wolf haters, who are hysteria driven.
https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/1445/
Natural Order of Things Farming Animals to Kill Them
It is a good thing that FWP, MSU researchers, sportsmen came along to inform us that predators kill prey and that it is upsetting for the prey and the prey has to move their arses and it is stressful. Hundreds of thousands of years of predator prey relationships and naturally balanced wildlife ecosystems have to be reviewed as a result and the sportsmen-trapper-rancher-wildlife agency groups will make things right with removal of the most of the predators, again, if they have their way, killed so that the prey can relax and eat grass until the human groups can come along and kill them, with a legitimate license of course or need for management, which is not upsetting to the prey because this is the natural order of things, man’s manifest destiny and all. Being hunted by natural predators is upsetting. It is scary to be hunted and killed, unless it is by humans. So, from us predators and prey, thank you humans, for relieving our stress and making it right. We will graze in tranquility until then. We are here to be killed by you for you. Enjoy your traditions of killing us for sport and management. Nature did not know what she was doing. Wildlife managers have blessed us. Killing us provides sport, tradition, wholesome time well spent, work, fur, trophies, and it is all good for us! Amen. Let it be so. Study us and farm us so you can kill us. It is stewardship by humans.
Wolf Jihad, Wolf Persecution: Montana legislature has a bill to allow landowners to shoot a “threatening wolf”. I thought ranchers/landowners already had this protection? Now asking the right to shoot a wolf on the next mountain or on their ranch or land? It means that any wolf seen can be seen is threatening, so it is a bill to treat wolves as varmints across the state. It is hard for most bloggers on most sites to deal with facts: Wolves usually ignore mans’ domestic animals and stocks, killing only .0029 percent of cattle, 74 of 2,500,000 in MT 2011. Even mountain lions usually do the same. Of course most wolf haters have trouble with statistics, facts and science and will deal only with absolute numbers and anecdotal opinion rather than percentages and probabilities, more folklore. I had geese, chickens, sheep, horses, and often a litter of Dalmatian pups on my place, and I had a resident mountain lion and a pack of coyotes that left me alone. It is another yokel-rancher-wildlife hater myth that predators need to be killed on sight. So, is this more hysterical nonsense coming out of this right wing anti-wildlife legislature? This is more among mounting evidence that wolves need to be re-listed in hostile western, if not all states, especially MT, WY and ID with state legislature attitudes of treating them like varmints to be shot on sight, extended hunt seasons with an extended trapping seasons.