1,000 Wolves at Risk: Call Interior Secretary Salazar Now

[hippydippymama]

Call the US Fish and Wildlife Service at 1-800-344-9453, select option “3” (for endangered species) and hit “0” to speak with the operator. Once you are connected, just deliver this simple message:

"I am calling to express my extreme disappointment in Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision to eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves

Comments

[sea_cucumber]

This makes me sad :(
Is there any way non-US people can help?

[agraciado]

hi, do you know anything about The Wolves or Wyoming other than what you have in this post you are putting up? I LIVE in Wyoming and I know Salazar as he was a politician in Colorado for years. If they want to eliminate the act it means that the wolves now have a healthy, thriving population. Because in these parts it's so open that a lot of times it's easy for certain animals to become overpopulated.

[shinigamu]

Just to clarify.. Just because someone lives in an area where a law is being looked at, does not mean they have the best intentions or are correct in the methods they wish to use. Just saying.

They want to drill for oil in Alaska, it doesn't mean they found a way to do it without environmental damage. Does that make sense?

[hippydippymama]

I'm looking up links for you as we speak, I just wanted to ask one question...

BECAUSE it's so open, that makes it EASIER for them to become overpopulated? I don't follow your logic.

[yukonsally]

if we don't thin the herd a bit, then they become overpopulated and then we have problems. I don't like hunting either but I'm okay with this.

[urethrafranklin]

Damn you, Salazar.
Damn you, Salazar!!

Sorry. I just really, really wanted to use that line.

[whysper]

LoL!

[spacepixie]

Roseredhoofbeat's third article states that many of those wolves were killed because they were preying on farm animals. If they had a large enough natural habitat, this wouldn't happen. If we aren't going to take steps to protect and enlarge their habitat (which should be the first step anyway- just as you wouldn't buy a Great Dane before you planned on moving out of your 400sq ft. efficiency apartment), then we do have an obligation to make sure they don't become overpopulated on the land they do have. And yeah, their numbers sound small, but when you think about the amount of wild area they have left to live in, and more importantly the number of acres of forest needed per wolf to supply enough prey animals to prevent starvation, it seems much less small

[penguinsane]

Using a Great Dane is a poor analogy, because they actually make GREAT apartment dogs (despite their size, adults are often quite lazy), but I get what you're saying.

[whysper]

I think a great dane is a fare analogy since it would need lots of space if it was hunting for it's own food. It's better than a shiatsu anyway ;)

Great danes are fed by someone, wolves are not. They need larger space because prey is dispersed within that space. The larger the range, the more prey within it.

They attack farm animals, because they do not have enough food within their territory - forced upon them by human development/alterations in the land.

[spookster_z]

Thanks for your comment. I found all this out by talking to my uncle who is a little more in touch with the issue, and afterwards I felt very deceived by what the article I had read had said. So then I went here:
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/pressrel/09-02.htm
And found much better information. Everything I'd read before that gave the impression that the hunting would be a free-for-all, indiscriminate shooting, but it's not that at all. In addition, the US F&WS says that if the wolf population started declining too drastically, they would put them back on the list.

[scificionado]

I was a Mike Miles delegate. Told you so!

*for those not from CO, Mike Miles was the *other* nominee at the state Dem convention.