October 7, 2013
This banner, from Center For Biological Diversity, pretty much says it all…although I think the Northern Rockies estimate is too high, Nobody really knows how many wolves reside in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming. Jay Mallonee, Montana wolf biologist, believes Montana FWP’s data on wolf numbers is seriously flawed. AND the chart doesn’t take into account the number of wolves who died in Montana and Idaho in 2009/2010. Over 500 wolves perished in the wolf hunt, Wildlife Services killings, 10j, poaching and general mortality…which would raise the total of dead wolves to over 2000, not including the ongoing wolf hunts taking place now, Wildlife Services slaughter and continued poaching of these beleaguered animals.
The Obama administration has been the worst thing for wolves since their first extermination in the lower 48. He and his cronies have undone the hard-won progress made to bring wolves back from the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
It would be more appropriate to have Dan Ashe’s likeness or Sallie Jewell’s likeness than Obama (the Obama administration wanting to strip wolves of protection). Obama is delegating this matter to Secretary of Interior, Jewell, and USFWS Dan Ashe, both political appointees and primarily politicians cowing to the rancher-sportsmen crowd and conservative state senators and representatives in the mid west and west. Although we wolf lovers and conservationist of wilderness and especially apex predators, are disappointed with Obama, can you imagine McCain-Palin and Romney-Ryan years. It would have been the end of true wilderness outside the national parks and refuges. We can try to get this on Obama’s radar. McCain-Palin and Romney-Ryan would not even have such reception on their radar. If you do not think wolf jihad is very much a right-brain agenda, you are naive to say the least.
I must be naive, to say the least, as I think the wolf jihad is a no-brain agenda, and that neither left nor right-brain lobes would consciously (or subconsciously) work to destroy the biosphere on which everything we hold dear depends!
Please send this to Obama, Jewell, Ashe and anyone else with an anti- wolf agenda. This “War on Wolves” has got to stop!
@Roger…I wholeheartedly disagree that Obama was/is just “delegating”. He hand picked Salazar for a reason and don’t think for one minute he didn’t know what “Cowboy Ken” was up to. Obama wasn’t in office more than a few months when he delisted wolves in Idaho and Montana. George Bush never came close to causing the misery and suffering Obama has heaped upon wolves and I’m no Republican. He’s also managed to weaken the ESA, to the delight of the Safari Club and their minions.
Our fearless leader is responsible for the wolf debacle because he could easily have selected Grijalva or Richardson to head the Interior but he chose a rancher instead to pander to the red states. When it came time to help Tester get re-elected Obama had no trouble with the wolf delisting rider that was attached, ironically, to a must pass budget bill. All the Democrats, save three, voted to delist wolves without judicial review, in the Spring of 2011. Obama signed the bill into law.
No excuses here for Obama…he owns the wolf slaughter.
Couldn’t agree more..Obama absolutely owns it and he has turned out to be a miserable steward of our lands. At least Bush was a ‘cowboy’ who didn’t have nature deficit disorder as the current President seems to be displaying with every appointment he makes. He needs to held responsible and accountable for his decisions regarding our wild lands and wildlife. It seems the government “shutdown” started in 2011 for the wolves, when they were shut out from the protections they had under the ESA. 2,000 have paid with their lives. Unconscionable slaughter Mr President.