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9/5/09: Save Gray Wolves So We Can Slaughter Them?

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• Two Idaho hunters kill wolves on opening
day
• Wolf hunting now legal but still
controversial
• Reinstate Federal Protections for
Northern Rockies Wolves
• Hunters take
aim at Idaho's wolves
• Idaho Wolf Tags Went On Sale August
24, 2009
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife / Gray Wolves in the
Northern Rocky Mountains
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PHOTO COLLAGE CREDITS:
• Two Idaho hunters kill wolves on opening day
• National Geographic, Joel Sartore
• www.bricabrackorner.com/Wolf3W.jpg
• 2008 PiedType.com.jpg
• Discovery Center, West Yellowstone, Montana. Feb 9, 2008
The gray wolf, also called timber wolf, is the largest wild member of the Canidae family and an ice age survivor originating during
the
Late Pleistocene around 300,000 years ago.
Today their fate is uncertain, amid pressure to kill wolves at the behest of cattle ranchers vying for autonomous grazing grounds. The removal
of Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves from the list of endangered wildlife is also a gift to logging, drilling and hunting industries.
Private industries have persuaded federal agencies like the Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife, and Bureau of Land Management to poison
prairie
dogs, haze buffalo, roundup wild horses...and delist wolves for open season.
Taxpayers spent millions to recover the very same wolves the Obama administration is now letting Greater Yellowstone states kill. There is no
comprehensive federal wolf plan...just a bunch of guys in camouflage gunning down wolves in Idaho and Montana.
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President Barack Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
comments: 202-456-1111 or 202-456-9000
switchboard: 202-456-1414; fax: 202-456-2461
contact form: www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Washington DC 20240
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW, Room 3256
MailStop 3238 MIB
Washington, DC 20240-0001
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Sam D. Hamilton, Director: Director@fws.gov
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FWS Mountain-Prairie Region: MountainPrairie@fws.gov
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Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter
Office of the Governor, Idaho
P.O. Box 83720
Boise, Idaho 83720
ph: 208 334-2100; fax: 208-334-3454
email: governor@gov.idaho.gov
Jason Kreizenbeck, Chief of Staff: jkreizenbeck@gov.idaho.gov
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 25 / Boise, ID 83707
Walk-in Address: 600 S. Walnut / Boise, ID 83712
ph: 208-334-3700; fax: 208-334-2148, 208-334-2114
email: idfginfo@idfg.idaho.gov
web form: ishandgame.idaho.gov/inc/contact.cfm
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Governor Brian D. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor, Montana State Capitol Bldg.
P.O. Box 200801 / Helena MT 59620-0801
ph: 406-444-3111; fax: 406-444-5529
email: BrianSchweitzer@mt.gov, governor@mt.gov
contact form: governor.mt.gov/contact/commentsform.asp
Montana Department of Fish and Game
Joe Maurier, Director, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
1420 East Sixth Avenue / P.O. Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701
ph: 406-444-2535; fax: 406-444-4952
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IDAHO & MONTANA RESIDENTS ONLY:
STATE - IDAHO LEGISLATORS
State of Idaho Legislature, ph: 208-334-2475
State Capitol / Boise, ID 83720-0001
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Montana State Senate, fax: 406-444-4875
PO Box 200500 / Helena, MT 59620-0500
Montana House of Representatives, fax: 406-444-4825
PO Box 200400 / Helena, MT 59620-0400
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Dear President Obama, Secretary Salazar, State and Federal Officials:
I am shocked that the Obama administration activated a Bush-era rule to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species list. The
delisting of Greater Yellowstone wolves basically sanctions their slaughter.
Montana opened fire on 9/15/09 with a 75-wolf limit. Idaho's race to kill up to 25% of its wolves (during this season alone) began on 9/1/09.
Idaho's Department of Fish and Game hopes to sell 70,000 wolf-hunt permits in 2009. That's too many trophy hunters to unleash on a wolf
population that has not fully rebounded.
Where is the intelligent strategy to sustain the very wolves that Americans salvaged from near extinction? Instead, we are asked to standby as
Idaho and Montana aim for possibly the largest wolf bloodbath since the 1930s.
Please renew Endangered Species Act safeguards for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. I urge you to take
meaningful action to reinstate protections now.
At the very least, suspend this irresponsible wolf "management" plan until it undergoes the type scientific scrutiny the Obama administration
advocates. Secretary Salazar's original verdict to delist wolves didn't assess biological repercussions. It failed to consider Idaho's policy for the
unsustainable killing of hundreds of wolves.
Wolves are key to thriving ecosystems. But state plans seem more focused on eradication than ecologically balanced wildlife populations. The
federal government needs to defend the wolves that U.S. citizens invested millions in tax dollars to save.
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