The call of the wild is being silenced nationwide by federal
bureaucrats. We have a month left to change their minds. Submit
your comment now to keep gray wolves on the federal endangered species
list.
Wolves are one of the most iconic symbols of America’s wild places.
Yet, for centuries they were ruthlessly hunted, trapped, and poisoned, bringing
them to the brink of extinction in the lower-48 states.
Wolves have made gains since being reintroduced in Yellowstone, but
their position is tenuous to nonexistent in the vast majority of their former
range, including California, the Pacific Northwest, the southern Rocky
Mountains, and the Northeast. Despite this, last month the Obama Administration
announced plans to strip wolves across nearly the entire continental U.S. of
their federal protections.
I have witnessed—and defeated in court—a number of flawed attempts to
delist and hunt gray wolves, but this is the most far-reaching plan yet. We have
seen more than a thousand wolves killed in the past two years, in states where
wolves have already lost federal protections. If we don’t stop this proposal
from going forward, the assault on wolves will spread to more states.
Thank you for speaking out,
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Doug Honnold
Managing Attorney |
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