BOYCOTT WOLF MURDERING STATES

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Please join me in the boycott of all non-native goods from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Alaska, Washington state, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the UP of Michigan.



if these invaders and colonists are to exterminate the wolves in a continuation of genocide, i will not fund them or participate in the murder they lust after.

The wolves call to each other with their howls to say " I'm here " , or " I'm coming home. They mate for life . The father of the family is a very involved with raising his children. They will take in orphaned pups from other packs. They mate for life. If a pack member is killed , their howls become mournful long after the packs loss. When the torture of traps grab loved ones, the family will stay by their family members side , until the cruel one comes. They are extemely smart , and they realise how dangerous we are. They are very hard for people to find , even when evidense of them is all around. They learn to dig up traps , to hide from people , and have even been known to bury poison left out for them.... In 200 years there has not been a legitimate case of a wolf killing a person. Wolf killers claim 2. Nearly 100 people are killed by hunters every year ... Wolves are the humane species.



Mont. must stop killing of wolves or risk losing tourism dollars:
www.ravallirepublic.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_400d3e09-8ea9-5ba8-9966-37b06453a1c1.html

10 reasons why we need wolves:
www.whitewolfpack.com/2011/05/10-reasons-we-need-wolves.html

wolf hunters are guilty of hate crimes:
exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/wolf-hunters-are-guilty-of-hate-crimes/

Obituary: 832F, Yellowstone's Most Famous Wolf, was Killed on Thursday:
www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/obituary-832f-yellowstones-most-famous-wolf.html

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This group is helping protect wolves.

www.defenders.org/wolf/wolves-101

"What Defenders Is Doing to Help Wolves

For decades, Defenders has been a leader in promoting wolf recovery throughout their natural ranges. We were one of the driving forces behind their successful reintroduction in 1995 and 1996 into the Northern Rockies and greater Yellowstone region and led the way to reintroduce wolves to the Southwest in 1998.

Unfortunately, wolves today continue to face threats to their survival and Defenders continues to work on the ground, in the courts, and in state and federal legislatures to give America's wolves a lasting future."


Become a member and help protect these beautiful animals. I joined about a year ago.

LoreD

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Here is an update on the wolves:

Humane Society of United States files gray wolf lawsuit against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Morgan Sherburne [phone] - [e-mail]
8:57 a.m. EST, February 13, 2013

The Humane Society of the United States filed a lawsuit against Michigan and two other Great Lakes states, calling for protection of the gray wolf in all three states.

"Plaintiffs, animal protection and conservation organizations, challenge the decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to strip gray wolves in the Great Lakes region of protection under the Endangered Species Act," says the opening of the lawsuit document.

The Humane Society filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.'s United States District Court. The plaintiffs also include Born Free, USA; Help Our Wolves Live; and Friends of Animals and Their Environment.

"We're filing the federal lawsuit because we've already seen now several months of state management after wolves have been delisted, and it's been painfully clear that federal protection is sorely needed for wolves," said Jill Fritz, Michigan state director of the Humane Society of the United States. "The fact that, as you've seen, Michigan is rushing toward that same process — a wolf hunt — proves that these states cannot be trusted."
Too, the lawsuit objects to the gray wolf's delisting because it says the Endangered Species Act requires protection for a species that is endangered throughout its historic range. Currently, the gray wolf is present "across just five percent of its historic range," says the lawsuit.

But organizations that support the wolves' delisting and a potential hunt of the wolf say populations are healthy, particularly across the three states named in the lawsuit.

"I think Michigan is in a very good place," said Amy Trotter, resource policy manager for Michigan United Conservation Clubs. "We have a very well thought-out wolf management plan, and we've been moving forward with enacting it."

At last count, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources estimated there are roughly 700 wolves across the Upper Peninsula. The department recently moved to survey wolf populations every two years because of budget constraints. The department will conduct a survey in 2013 and should have a more up-to-date count of the wolf population this year.

In order for wolves to be delisted, they had to number 200 in Michigan and Wisconsin for five years, Trotter said. Then, Michigan set an internal goal of 200 wolves in the state before the animal was delisted.

"We've been there for quite a while," Trotter said.

After gray wolves were delisted in Michigan in January 2011, the state had to begin to monitor populations and continue to monitor those numbers for five years, said Georgia Parham, public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Bloomington, Ind. But that doesn't mean a wolf hunt can't be enacted during that monitoring period.

"We can re-list a species if it looks, during the monitoring period, like there's a need to do that," Parham said. "At the point that they were delisted, it became a state decision whether or not to hunt again. ... As long as states maintain their wolf populations, then how they do it is up to them."

Fritz and the Humane Society think that should be through non-lethal means.

"Enacting an indiscriminate and inhumane trapping and hunting season doesn't do anything to affect the problem of depredation or public safety," she said. "(Michigan) has ignored all that and jumped in headfirst."

DNR officials are in the process of deciding whether a wolf hunt should take place. A group of stakeholders, called the Wolf Management Advisory Council and organized by the DNR, will meet Feb. 19 in St. Ignace to continue to discuss the status of wolves and a potential wolf hunt.

"We're moving in a deliberative fashion with the Natural Resources Commission about whether or not a wolf hunting season should happen, what the shape of that season should be and where we're at in that process," said Ed Golder, DNR spokesman.

Tony Demboski is the president of the Upper Peninsula Sportman's Alliance. He resides in the western Upper Peninsula, in Quinnesec, near Iron Mountain in Dickinson County.

"As the (Upper Peninsula Sportsman's Alliance) and as most people in the Upper Peninsula, we are not for the eradication of the wolf, but we do feel strongly that the DNR needs to control these animals, because there are some areas that have real problems with wolves," Demboski said.

Demboski said he worries about livestock and pets, but also how wolves might interact with humans in the Upper Peninsula. He also worries about how a petition drive to get a referendum on the November ballot to block a wolf hunt might be affected by population centers in the southern part of the Lower Peninsula, he said. The coalition seeking petition signatures is called Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, and the Humane Society of the United States is one of the organizations in the coalition.

"There's a need for the people to be aware of how many people are down in Detroit or Saginaw or Bay City. ... They need 225,000 signatures and we don't even have 225,000 people in the Upper Peninsula," he said. "We had eight wolves that needed to be taken out from the city of Ironwood because they were in city limits. On the eastern end of the Upper Peninsula, how many farm animals have been destroyed by the wolf? People down there don't know that."

In a previous interview with the Petoskey News-Review, wildlife biologist and DNR wolf specialist Brian Roell, who is based in Marquette, said there have been 211 recorded depredation events on livestock and pets in the Upper Peninsula since data started being collected in 1992.

Fritz said Keep Michigan Wolves Protected is on pace to reach its goal of 225,000 signatures, which it must collect by March 27.

"I'm just amazed at the resolve of Michiganders to get out there and get those signatures to keep wolves protected in our state," Fritz said.

Neither the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nor the Michigan DNR could comment on the litigation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has 60 days to file a response to the Humane Society's lawsuit.


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Keep Wolves Protected in the Lower 48

wolfwatcher.org/news/all-news/keep-wolves-protected-in-the-lower-48/

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to strip wolves across the lower 48 states of all Endangered Species Act protections! Wolves have only just begun to recover in large portions of the Pacific Northwest, California, southern Rocky Mountains and Northeast.

Retaining protections for wolves in the lower 48 will not impact the delisting decisions in the northern Rocky Mountains or western Great Lakes. However, it will retain protections for a small number of wolves in the West – wolves that have slowly been moving back into historically occupied areas like the southern Rocky Mountains and Northeast. These wolves may never recover if this plan is implemented.

Right now members of Congress are ready to step in. Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) are circulating a letter to the USFWS opposing the premature removal of wolf protections. U.S. Representative’s Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Jim Moran (D-VA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), and David Cicilline (D-RI) have already signed on as co-signatories.

ACTION: Please call and write to your member of Congress to urge him or her to save wolves by signing onto Reps. DeFazio and Markey’s letter. Remind them that removing protections for lower 48 wolves is premature and will prevent their recovery in portions of their former historical range.

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Rock Legend Iggy Pop Urges Gov. Snyder to Cancel Wolf Hunt, and Let the People Decide

m.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2013/11/rock-legend-iggy-pop-endorses-end-of-trophy-wolf-hunting-111413.html#.UoZqGfPnbcu

Protests “Senseless Killing of These Majestic Animals for Sport”

Michigan native Iggy Pop, a music legend and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has endorsed the Keep Michigan Wolves Protected campaign to stop the trophy hunting of wolves and restore the right of Michigan voters to have a say over wildlife policy. Michigan’s first wolf hunt in decades begins tomorrow.

In a letter to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, dated Nov. 12, 2013, Pop writes: “As a Michigan native and someone who has cared about animals, both wild and domestic, for as long as I can remember, I was dismayed…that a bill you signed last May (S.B. 288/P.A. 21) gave Michigan’s Natural Resources Commission the authority to decide which animals can be hunted…which resulted in the first authorized wolf hunt since wolves underwent state protection in 1965.”

“To further compound the issue Mlive.com just unveiled several investigative reports that reveal the state used ‘half-truths’ and ‘falsehoods’ to support authorizing a hunting season on wolves in Michigan. The reports make clear that the decision to approve wolf hunting was based on fraudulent information and not sound science,” said Pop.

“I am asking all of my fans in Michigan to sign up and help gather signatures to reverse this decision and protect the wolf from future hunts,” Pop continues. “The senseless killing of these majestic animals for sport is a disappointment to the people of Michigan and a stain on its Government.” He called on Gov. Snyder to “do the right thing by staying the hunt and allowing the people’s voice to be heard” on the issue.

The endorsement by Iggy Pop, who was born in Muskegon and grew up in Ypsilanti, follows an investigation by Mlive.com revealing that lawmakers used details of a wolf sighting outside an Upper Peninsula daycare that never occurred; the Department of Natural Resources’ furbearer specialist lied in a radio interview about wolves threatening people outside their homes; the U.P. farmer who reported more than 60 percent of wolf-livestock incidents over the past three years baited wolves using deer and cattle carcasses in violation of state law; and the Natural Resources Commission asked for public input about the wolf hunt and then deleted or ignored more than 10,000 email comments on the subject.

Pop’s endorsement joins a long list of people and organizations that oppose the Michigan wolf hunt.

Last March, Keep Michigan Wolves Protected – a coalition of animal welfare groups, conservationists, veterinarians, business owners, faith leaders and Native American tribes – submitted more than 255,000 signatures of Michigan residents allowing voters to decide in the November 2014 election if the wolf should be designated as a game animal. Before the people even had an opportunity to vote on the issue, legislators and the governor hastily approved a second law (P.A. 21) allowing the unelected, political appointees of the Natural Resources Commission to designate the wolf and other protected animals as game species, which would no longer be subject to the voter referendum process.



Keep Michigan Wolves Protected launched a second petition drive in August to overturn P.A. 21. Persons interested in volunteering, donating or learning more about the issue can visit KeepWolvesProtected.com.