From Defenders of Wildlife:
Last year more than ONE-THIRD of Montana’s entire wolf population was killed — and with a number of new and deadly hunting and trapping provisions, the death toll is expected to rise this season.
Anti-wolf forces are determined to drive the wolf population down to the bare minimum, and Montana is adopting more extreme wolf management tactics – making it cheaper and easier to kill wolves.
We need YOU to help us stop this relentless killing before it’s too late.
The killing has resumed.
Montana’s hunting season began in earnest on September 15th. Last year hunters and trappers killed off more than one-third of the state’s entire wolf population.
With a host of new and deadly hunting and trapping provisions, Montana is set to become a wolf tragedy in the making. We can’t let that happen.
Anti-wolf forces are determined to drive wolf populations down to the bare minimum. Earlier this year, they introduced a shameful batch of anti-wolf measures in the Montana legislature.
And they could spell disaster for Montana’s wolves:
•The cost for out-of state-hunters to purchase MT hunting licenses to kill wolves dramatically dropped from $350 to only $50, thus encouraging hunting of more wolves by out-of-state hunters;
•It’s now legal this season to use electronic devices to lure wolves to their death;
•The number of wolves a person can kill during hunting and trapping season has increased from one wolf in 2011 to five wolves this season; and
•As of now, hunters can now walk right up to the Yellowstone National Park border and shoot any wolf that crosses the invisible park boundary – even if it’s just for a minute.
Montana is adopting more extreme wolf management tactics, making it cheaper and easier to kill wolves.
With your help we’re fighting for the wolves.
1.We’re fighting against proposed bills that would put a shockingly low cap on the wolf population instead of maintaining healthy numbers like other wildlife species;
2.We’re on the ground in local communities to dispel misconceptions and anti-wolf propaganda ; and to build political opposition to the host of crazy anti-wolf bills sure to come with the start of the state legislative session in January;
3.And we’re working with ranchers, private landowners and others to pioneer non-lethal strategies so that wolves and livestock can peacefully coexist.
The war to save wolves now spans the country…from the Northern Rockies, where the killing has claimed nearly 1,200 wolves since 2011…to the Southwest, where the Mexican gray wolf is struggling to survive…to Washington, D.C., where anti-wolf forces are driving a misguided delisting proposal through the federal bureaucracy.
Exposing the Big Game 
Obama: Do you care enough to ACT! Even though Wildlife biologists publish study after study that confirm how invaluable apex keystone predators are to our ecosystem, Wildlife Services kills more predators every year.
Blog: Profiling Endangered Species: End Violence in Our Wild Lands
http://www.paintitblue.org/blog/
The problem many of us have with organizations like Defenders is their naivete’ regarding the Livestock Industry and its refusal to ever support any protection for native wild animals they deem “competition” to the livestock grazing. Defenders continue to talk about working to “pioneer non-lethal strategies so that wolves and livestock can peacefully coexist.” What? This has never happened, and will never happen, because the Livestock Industry is entrenched in a long-standing mindset of a War Against Wildlife, especially “predators.” This will not change. When will these groups that purport to “defend” wildlife get this? As long as livestock grazing continues on public lands, no native wild animal will be safe from slaughter.
Jamie ‘gets it’.
That’s right. I posted their action alert because it includes a rundown of Montana’s new regulations.
Reblogged this on Sherlockian's Blog.
Sadly Defenders does little, but grab others information and ‘make it their own’…oh and they make sure their ‘donate’ button is close at hand.
That must be how they became the best known name in wolf defense. Like all the bigger groups, more of their time is spent fundraising than actually defending anything.
The people have to do this and organize sit ins on Capitol steps in the slaughter states where it is taking place .. I am a member of defenders but they haven’t gotten anything done !
We have to take to the hunters capitols and make our voices heard .. The wolves belong to us as well and the economics of the wolf hunt is a wholesale slaughter .. 5 wolves for $19.50 !?
The wolves bring in 35 million dollars of revenue to the state from tourists visiting. ! Why can’t we go to Yelliwstone and picket outside the boundary .. ?let the tourists know what is happening?
So much for Obama and his family and friends being decent, compassionate people. They’re not. Just people who send out hired killers. Or people who enable thrill killers.