From Defenders of Wildlife,
Well they did it.
Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) formally proposed to remove federal Endangered Species Act protection for most of the gray wolves across the United States.
FWS is required by law to accept public comments before they can make their final decision on this misguided proposal. Defenders plans to use this 90 day comment period to organize strong and vocal opposition from supporters like you to make sure the decision makers in Washington hear what America thinks about the premature delisting of gray wolves.
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You may submit comments by one of the following methods:
(1) Electronically: Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, enter FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0073, which is the docket number for this rulemaking. Please ensure you have found the correct document before submitting your comments. If your comments will fit in the provided comment box, please use this feature of http://regulations.gov, as it is most compatible with our comment-review procedures. If you attach your comments as a separate document, our preferred file format is Microsoft Word. If you attach multiple comments (such as form letters), our preferred format is a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. Submissions of electronic comments on our Proposed Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population of the Mexican Wolf, which also published in today’s Federal Register, should be submitted to Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2013-0056 using the method described above.
(2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0073; Division of Policy and Directives Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 2042-PDM; Arlington, Virginia 22203.
We will post all comments on http://www.regulations.gov. This generally means that we will post any personal information you provide us (see the Public Comments section below for more information). Submissions of hard copy comments on our Proposed Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population of the Mexican Wolf, which also published in today’s Federal Register should be addressed to Attn: Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2013-0056 using the method described above.
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From Defenders of Wildlife, Here are some important points you could include in your comments:
- Gray wolf recovery is not complete. This decision could derail wolf recovery efforts in areas around the country where it has barely begun — in places like the Pacific Northwest and in states that possess some of the nation’s best unoccupied wolf habitat, such as northern California, Colorado, and Utah.
- Delisting would prematurely turn wolf management over to the states. We’ve already seen what can happen when rabid anti-wolf politics are allowed to trump science and core wildlife management principles.
- Montana, Wyoming and Idaho — where wolves have already been delisted — are not managing wolves like other wildlife such as elk, deer, and bears. Instead they’re intending to drive the wolves’ population numbers back down to the bottom.
- Other species, such as the bald eagle, American alligator, and peregrine falcon were declared recovered and delisted when they occupied a much larger portion of their former range. Wolves deserve the same chance at real recovery.
The future of wolves in the U.S. is at stake. Please send your comments to the FWS today.
Over the coming weeks, we are launching an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to convince the Obama Administration to withdraw this reckless proposal and make good on our nation’s commitment to restore imperiled wolves.
Exposing the Big Game 
I don’t know what to say, other than “please don’t do this. Wolves deserve protection.” Can you help me articulate something short, sweet and powerful to say?
You just said it, they just need to hear it over and over. And you might include some of the talking points from the points above as well.
Wolves have been in nature for thousands of years. They are still around today, so what. If many would have their way, we would be back like it was 60 years ago. No wolves, and have out breaks of diseases in prey and game animals. The wolves were not there to take down and eliminate the diseases before they spread though out the herds. The wolves would survive off of the weak, sick and old that would some times slow down herds from traveling from region to region. Many of the ranchers and hunters are greedy low life people who want everything their way. they do not care about nature, nor the future of what will happen with out the wolves. We been though it once already. Do we have to do it again, and spend millions of dollars in tax money to bring them back, because some want to kill them off once again. It didn’t work last time. Learn from your mistakes and don’t do the same mistakes twice. Besides the wolves were on that land far longer than any human ever though of living there. You humans are pushing the wolves and other wild life off from their land, because of being greedy. Always wanting more and more. Enough is never good enough.
And they can never seems to leave anything alone. They complain about the small amount of animals they kill from ranchers, but how many are killed by bear and lions. Don’t hear anything about them. They kill more than the wolves do. And many of the kills are done by hybrid wolves, but many are to stupid to know it. They just want to blame the wolves so they can have more things to shoot and kill, trap and make the creatures suffer in pain, or sick their dogs on the helpless creature to tare it apart alive, or they will go up on the trapped animals, beat it, kick it, stomp on it’s head, hit it, and do all kinds of thing to the animal to torture and abuse it before they kill it or it dies from the abuse. They even will take a rod and jam it down it’s throat til it comes out of the animals rear end. That is how sick they can be on hunting and killing these animals. Most of you people do not know these things, nor do many really care. But it is a shame, it is sick, nasty, disgusting, cruel, abusive, torturous towards these animals, and the humans should have to pay, not the wolves. Some will gut shot the wolves only to make them suffer, and so the wolf will run til it drops so the hunter came come up on the wolf while it is suffering in pain and bleeding from the gut shot only to torture the poor helpless suffering animal even more, til they torture it to death. Their eye will be popped out from their skull, all of their guts will be on the ground, and so much more sick and disgusting things these heartless low life cruel sick so called humans do.
Leave all the wolves protected. If we have to, control them humanely, not abusively.
I left a comment in support of wolves, but will they listen and act on this or will they simply do as they please anyway?
It all depends on how many comments in support of wolves they receive…
Reblogged this on Carinas space and commented:
Please leave your comments on gray wolf delisting!! The proposed rule has a comment period that ends in 88 days (09/11/2013)
People who have never held or touched or looked into a wolf’s eyes have no idea how gentle and loving they really are! All I can say is; may GOD have no mercy on the people who harm them.