You can help protect wolves in the Great Lakes and the Northeast by sending a quick e-mail. Our environment and all of its inhabitants are going to need all the help they can get in the next four (hopefully less! ) years.


Help Keep Eastern Wolves Safe
Dear DEN Activist:


I am writing because we need your help on an important wolf issue. Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed removing federal protections for the gray wolf in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions of the United States. Wolves once roamed throughout this entire region of the United States until they were effectively removed after years of human persecution from bounty programs and government-financed trappers. With the assistance of federal protections, wolf populations have slowly recovered in small areas of their historic range. Currently, approximately 3,000 wolves roam throughout Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin however, no viable wolf populations exist in the Northeast.

This proposal threatens to preclude wolf recovery efforts in the Northeast by limiting recovery success solely to the Great Lakes region. This proposed rule overlooks the Service's responsibilities under the Endangered Species Act to restore gray wolf populations to the Northeast despite the recent studies showing that suitable habitat and an adequate prey base in the northeastern forest could provide a home for up to 2,000 wolves.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Please go to the DEN Action Center at http://www.denaction.org and send an e-mail to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urging them to reject the proposal to delist gray wolves in the East from Endangered Species Act protections. Comments are due NOVEMBER 18, so please send your message right away.

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Nina Fascione

Vice President, Species Conservation

Defenders of Wildlife

BACKGROUND:

For more information about Defenders wolf recovery efforts, please visit http://www.defenders.org/wildlife/new/wolves.html.

For more information about the proposed rule, please visit http://midwest.fws.gov/wolf/

I was hoping to see more outrage by the defenders of the wolves org, when the Bush campaign used the wolf image in a anti Kerry ad to scare voters into voting for Bush. Interestingly, the ad aired during save the wolves week.

This administration is anti enviorment and org's like the one in listed in this forum need all the support they can get.

I believe non-profits aren't allowed to open their mouths during campaigns? Then God created the 527s...heh.

This was going around the "internets" during the wolfves-symbolizing-terrorists BushCo ad:

http://www.wolfpacksfortruth.org/index.html
WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush's "Wolves" Commercial

HEY!!!!! THE DAMN WOLVES WORKED FOR BUSH CAMPAIGN<<<<<<LOL>>>>>GO GET MONEY FROM BUSHIES....

Your kidding, Bush exploits the wolves in his ads but then won't stick up for them?

Why am I not surprised?

I...think...we're...starting...to....get...it !!! Thanks Cyndi for reminding me :D

The Rove Team knew full well they could exploit wolves or any other living creature in their ads, AND the protectionists groups were helpless to defend. It's the law, afterall.

The same for the Daschle (aka, prairie dog flip-flop campaign team) re-election failure.....they (dirty fighting GOP) nipped his campaign in the bud...it was about the prairie dogs, bless their little souls.