Saving Wolves, Cougars, Bobcats!

How do you take the wild out of a wilderness area? Kill the
carnivores. That's what the U.S. Forest Service has in mind.

The Forest Service is proposing to make it easier to kill key animals
in places they were once safe -- and let an agency with
a checkered past take control over these operations.

They want to use an array of poisons, traps and shooting -- including
aerial gunning -- to wipe out wolves and other carnivores in federally
designated wilderness areas.

Take action now. Tell the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw this
ill-advised proposal. Submit your personalized comments before the
August 7th deadline!

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...KrObVKbM-Mn_uA..

Your comments will be most effective if they are personalized. Tell
officials why it is important to you that they do not go forward with
this harmful proposal.

And it's not just wolves -- bears, coyotes, cougars and other
carnivores are at risk.

These creatures play an important role in the ecological balance
of our wilderness areas. They are essential species that keep other
wildlife populations in check by preventing overpopulation and
habitat damage.

The Forest Service proposal would upset the natural balance in the
most remote and natural places we have left -- and Wildlife Services,
the agency that would be put in charge, has a grim track record.
In 2004 alone, Wildlife Services agents killed more than 37,000
animals -- coyotes, wolves, foxes, and bobcats -- from the air.

Help stop this harmful proposal from becoming a reality! Submit your
comments today.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...MniSuBsSa6rGBg..

The proposal allows for the use of the controversial pesticide sodium
cyanide. Baited devices could be used to shoot the highly toxic gas
into a wolf's mouth, causing a horrible death.

Under the proposal, federal agents could also chase down and kill
bears or other carnivores using planes, helicopters, and
all-terrain vehicles -- invading areas once safe for these creatures
with loud, intrusive machines.

Submit your comments today. Tell the Forest Service to drop their
proposal to loosen restrictions on killing our wolves, bears and other
carnivores.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...YIk45VWPUHiblg..

Wilderness areas were meant to be wild and free. According to the 1964
Wilderness Act, these special places should be preserved in their
natural conditions with little or no human influence. But the Forest
Service's plan could fundamentally alter these largely untouched
areas, allowing low-flying airplanes, trucks and all-terrain vehicles
to hunt down populations of wolves, bears and other carnivores.

Write to the U.S. Forest Service today. Tell them to abandon their
proposal to take the wild out of our wilderness areas.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...3yg9YM_wa4uyDw..

Thank you for all you do to protect our wildlife and wild places.

Where are they planning to kill wolves?

I just can't imagine that they are, given the great expense that has gone
into bringing wolf packs back to the lower 48.

I may well be wrong, but this sounds like a message from a place that is
interested in semi-hysterical fund raising.

Jo

"Pat" wrote in message
.. .
How do you take the wild out of a wilderness area? Kill the
carnivores. That's what the U.S. Forest Service has in mind.

The Forest Service is proposing to make it easier to kill key animals
in places they were once safe -- and let an agency with
a checkered past take control over these operations.

They want to use an array of poisons, traps and shooting -- including
aerial gunning -- to wipe out wolves and other carnivores in federally
designated wilderness areas.

Take action now. Tell the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw this
ill-advised proposal. Submit your personalized comments before the
August 7th deadline!

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...KrObVKbM-Mn_uA..

Your comments will be most effective if they are personalized. Tell
officials why it is important to you that they do not go forward with
this harmful proposal.

And it's not just wolves -- bears, coyotes, cougars and other
carnivores are at risk.

These creatures play an important role in the ecological balance
of our wilderness areas. They are essential species that keep other
wildlife populations in check by preventing overpopulation and
habitat damage.

The Forest Service proposal would upset the natural balance in the
most remote and natural places we have left -- and Wildlife Services,
the agency that would be put in charge, has a grim track record.
In 2004 alone, Wildlife Services agents killed more than 37,000
animals -- coyotes, wolves, foxes, and bobcats -- from the air.

Help stop this harmful proposal from becoming a reality! Submit your
comments today.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...MniSuBsSa6rGBg..

The proposal allows for the use of the controversial pesticide sodium
cyanide. Baited devices could be used to shoot the highly toxic gas
into a wolf's mouth, causing a horrible death.

Under the proposal, federal agents could also chase down and kill
bears or other carnivores using planes, helicopters, and
all-terrain vehicles -- invading areas once safe for these creatures
with loud, intrusive machines.

Submit your comments today. Tell the Forest Service to drop their
proposal to loosen restrictions on killing our wolves, bears and other
carnivores.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...YIk45VWPUHiblg..

Wilderness areas were meant to be wild and free. According to the 1964
Wilderness Act, these special places should be preserved in their
natural conditions with little or no human influence. But the Forest
Service's plan could fundamentally alter these largely untouched
areas, allowing low-flying airplanes, trucks and all-terrain vehicles
to hunt down populations of wolves, bears and other carnivores.

Write to the U.S. Forest Service today. Tell them to abandon their
proposal to take the wild out of our wilderness areas.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...3yg9YM_wa4uyDw..

Thank you for all you do to protect our wildlife and wild places.

Jo Firey wrote:
Where are they planning to kill wolves?

I just can't imagine that they are, given the great expense that has gone
into bringing wolf packs back to the lower 48.

I may well be wrong, but this sounds like a message from a place that is
interested in semi-hysterical fund raising.

Jo

There is certainly a move to put the Idaho wolf population back under
the control of the local Idaho authorities. And those authorities are
clearly not interested in continuing to have wolves in Idaho. I am
checking into these things myself but it is not incorrct to say that
this administration is not pro-wildlife.

Will in New Haven

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" It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond
of it." - Robert E. Lee


"Pat" wrote in message
.. .
How do you take the wild out of a wilderness area? Kill the
carnivores. That's what the U.S. Forest Service has in mind.

The Forest Service is proposing to make it easier to kill key animals
in places they were once safe -- and let an agency with
a checkered past take control over these operations.

They want to use an array of poisons, traps and shooting -- including
aerial gunning -- to wipe out wolves and other carnivores in federally
designated wilderness areas.

Take action now. Tell the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw this
ill-advised proposal. Submit your personalized comments before the
August 7th deadline!

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...KrObVKbM-Mn_uA..

Your comments will be most effective if they are personalized. Tell
officials why it is important to you that they do not go forward with
this harmful proposal.

And it's not just wolves -- bears, coyotes, cougars and other
carnivores are at risk.

These creatures play an important role in the ecological balance
of our wilderness areas. They are essential species that keep other
wildlife populations in check by preventing overpopulation and
habitat damage.

The Forest Service proposal would upset the natural balance in the
most remote and natural places we have left -- and Wildlife Services,
the agency that would be put in charge, has a grim track record.
In 2004 alone, Wildlife Services agents killed more than 37,000
animals -- coyotes, wolves, foxes, and bobcats -- from the air.

Help stop this harmful proposal from becoming a reality! Submit your
comments today.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...MniSuBsSa6rGBg..

The proposal allows for the use of the controversial pesticide sodium
cyanide. Baited devices could be used to shoot the highly toxic gas
into a wolf's mouth, causing a horrible death.

Under the proposal, federal agents could also chase down and kill
bears or other carnivores using planes, helicopters, and
all-terrain vehicles -- invading areas once safe for these creatures
with loud, intrusive machines.

Submit your comments today. Tell the Forest Service to drop their
proposal to loosen restrictions on killing our wolves, bears and other
carnivores.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...YIk45VWPUHiblg..

Wilderness areas were meant to be wild and free. According to the 1964
Wilderness Act, these special places should be preserved in their
natural conditions with little or no human influence. But the Forest
Service's plan could fundamentally alter these largely untouched
areas, allowing low-flying airplanes, trucks and all-terrain vehicles
to hunt down populations of wolves, bears and other carnivores.

Write to the U.S. Forest Service today. Tell them to abandon their
proposal to take the wild out of our wilderness areas.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i...3yg9YM_wa4uyDw..

Thank you for all you do to protect our wildlife and wild places.

"Will in New Haven" wrote in message
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Jo Firey wrote:
Where are they planning to kill wolves?

I just can't imagine that they are, given the great expense that has gone
into bringing wolf packs back to the lower 48.

I may well be wrong, but this sounds like a message from a place that is
interested in semi-hysterical fund raising.

Jo

There is certainly a move to put the Idaho wolf population back under
the control of the local Idaho authorities. And those authorities are
clearly not interested in continuing to have wolves in Idaho. I am
checking into these things myself but it is not incorrct to say that
this administration is not pro-wildlife.

Will in New Haven


I'm quite sure that a lot of folks in Idaho and Montana would like to get
rid of the wolves, I just can't believe the Forrest Service would get
involved in that kind of PR nightmare.

Jo

"Jo Firey" wrote

Where are they planning to kill wolves?

I just can't imagine that they are, given the great expense that has gone
into bringing wolf packs back to the lower 48.

I may well be wrong, but this sounds like a message from a place that is
interested in semi-hysterical fund raising.

The message comes from Defenders of Wildlife, a Washington DC-based lobbying
organization. See http://www.defenders.org/about/

Jo Firey wrote:

Where are they planning to kill wolves?

I just can't imagine that they are, given the great expense that has gone
into bringing wolf packs back to the lower 48.

I think it's not in the lower 48 - I believe the wolf killing is done
mostly in Alaska.

Joyce