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BlueStar
August 28th, 2009, 06:06 PM
Starting September 1st, Idaho could host the greatest wolf massacre since the 1930s -- with a ratio of 70 guns for each of Idaho's wolves. On August 24th, state officials will begin selling some 70,000 permits to shoot and kill over 20% of the 1,000 wolves living in Idaho. Orphaned wolf pups that are unable to hunt for themselves will be left to starve to death during the brutal winter months.

Stand up for these animals today! Sign the petition (http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=4&campaign=IdahoWolf&ThirdPartyClicks=ETE_082709_IdahoWolf_f) by August 28th and ask Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to stop Idaho's deadly wolf hunt.

http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=4&campaign=IdahoWolf&ThirdPartyClicks=ETE_082709_IdahoWolf_f

BlueStar
September 2nd, 2009, 04:28 PM
From Care2 site: The gray wolf was on the endangered species list only five short months ago. Now in a sad turn of events, the first-ever public wolf hunt began on September 1, 2009 in the state of Idaho. Hunters are being allowed to kill up to 220 wolves, which is one quarter of the species’ population in the state. And all of this begins while animal activist organizations continue to battle in U.S. District Court for an injunction.

The gray wolf became nearly exterminated in the Western part of the country in the early 20th century. When they became almost completely extinct across the U.S., they fell under the protection of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. In the 1990’s the wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and parts of Idaho where they made a successful comeback. Their packs now range from Idaho, to Montana and into Oregon.

The federal government decided that the wolves, which have a population of about 1,650, are a recovered species and they lifted their protection from the endangered list earlier this year.

Then Idaho’s Fish and Game Commission voted to allow hunters to thin out the packs by 220 gray wolves as part of their plan for managing the population. A similar plan is in place in Montana where they will begin hunting 75 wolves later this month.

That’s when a dozen animal welfare groups such as Defenders of Wildlife, the Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance, Earthjustice, HSUS and others filed a lawsuit petitioning for an injunction from District Judge Donald Molloy. Earthjustice argued that a hunt could damage the comeback of the gray wolf by “genetically and geographically isolating individual wolf populations.”

“We had expected at this point to be celebrating the recovery of the gray wolf in the northern Rockies. Instead, after decades of recovery efforts, tremendous support and investment from the American public…and one of the most successful wildlife restorations in history, the future of the gray wolf in the Rocky Mountains is once again in jeopardy,” said Suzanne Stone of Defenders of Wildlife in an interview with the L.A. Times.

The welfare groups have a tough battle ahead of them because there is so much support for a wolf hunt in the state. In 2007 The Spokesman-Review reported that Idaho’s Governor Butch Otter told a group of cheering hunters, “I’m prepared to bid for that first ticket to shoot a wolf myself.”

Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance representative Stephen Augustine said, "We fear that under the guise of wolf management, what's about to happen is a wolf massacre."

"It is really astonishing that you could have an animal on the endangered species list at one point, and a bare five months later they're being hunted," said Augustine. "To my knowledge there isn't another animal that has had this happen to them."

Judge Molloy refused to say whether or when he will act on the lawsuit that was heard in court September 1st. And at the end of the day on August 31st, Idaho had sold more than 10,700 tags to hunters.

Please sign the petition about protecting the gray wolf: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/165659664

Lion Spirit Walker
September 2nd, 2009, 10:25 PM
Done.
We as a species upon this planet have become so grossly over populated as to tip the Balance of All Life on Earth.
And yet I see no crusades running to arms with the intent of population control.
Forgive me please.
Is it any wonder why we at times lose hope in our own species.

Kiran
September 3rd, 2009, 08:21 AM
It is done!

BlueStar
September 3rd, 2009, 12:54 PM
Thanks guys! I feel like Michael: the most dangerously overpopulated species on the planet is the human species. We need to sort ourselves out and let the natural world balance itself.

BlueStar
February 13th, 2010, 01:20 PM
Stop Corporate Sponsored Wolf Slaughters

What is a "predator derby?" It's a contest, where people compete to see who can kill the most wolves and other animals over a two-day period. What is a predator derby, really? It's a relic, from a time when we didn't know how important wolves are to the health of the American west.

Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse -- two major outdoor retailers -- sponsored three wolf-killing derbies in Idaho, held by the misleadingly named Sportsmen for Wildlife. Even worse the fees paid by derby contestants were funneled to support anti-wolf lawyers and lobbyists whose job is to keep wolves off the endangered species list and in the crosshairs.

Grassroots opposition has already convinced Nikon to drop its sponsorship of the predator derbies. Now its time for Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse to hear from citizens concerned for wolves and the American west.

Demand that Cabela's and Sportsman's Warehouse stop sponsoring wolf-killing predator derbies.

Please take a second to sign this:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/252884015

Thank you :)