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<\/p>\n\nPublished:<\/strong> February 24, 2011 at 7:14 am<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Dewey<\/a> sent\u00a0an urgent call to action<\/a> asking\u00a0for immediate action or accept a dismal fate for the wolf in various states including Montana, Washington State, Oregon and Idaho. The legislation would transfer the fate of the wolves<\/a> from federal hands into state hands. Idaho, for example, has refused to cooperate with the federal plan claiming a wolve pack of 150 is all that is required. Hundreds of Grey Wolves are slated for extermination<\/a>.\u00a0 After delisting the wolf passed\u00a0in the House, the future of the wolf now lies in the US Senate.<\/p>\n A new wolf population had been reestablished in Idaho and Montana by 1995. The Fish and Wildlife Service transported 66 additional wolves from Canada to prop up the US species.\u00a0\u00a0By 2009, the packs had grown to about 2000 animals, enough for the species to maintain itself.\u00a0 Then\u00a0Idaho and Montana authorized a hunting season which reduced the wolf population by 30%, down to 1650 animals, during a single season, after the wolf was delisted as a protected species.\u00a0 Some state agencies seek to extinguish the wolf packs under political pressure.\u00a0 An Additional wolf hunting season was finally blocked by legal action, say the Defenders of Wildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n The House law exempts a single species<\/a> of animal from the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s list of protected species. That keeps professional wildlife management experts\u00a0out<\/a> of the discussion.\u00a0 Rather, the decision is made for political reasons<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Such action sets the precedence for eliminating other protected species that get in the way of development by merely excepting them from the endangered species list. The matter has been to court before and lost<\/a>, meaning senators are setting various states up for spending money on law suits instead of on wildlife. Funding cuts will destroy many of the programs used by the Environmental Protection Agency in it\u2019s response to climate change. The budgets are slashed so that protection of wildlife and wilderness is under funded. The funding cuts even hit clean air and clean water programs.<\/p>\n If taking care of the animals is important to you, if insuring clean air and water for the children is important, if protecting against global warming is important, then Dewey asks you to call your senator today!\u00a0 He says he really means it!<\/p>\n
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\nWolves hunting in packs can take down large animals including domestic buffalo and cattle<\/strong><\/p>\n