Please help us save the wolves.

[WolvenLycana]

We need to get 100,000 signatures by the middle of next month on our urgent petition. Please help by signing and sharing. They are slaughtering the majestic wolf in large numbers. They killed the Alpha Female of one of the most known packs of Yellowstone National Park. We must do something to make it illegal to kill wolves all over this nation.

http://wh.gov/mAOS

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Please help them. http:/wh.gov/mAOS

[Sevena]

I think it's wonderful that you've shared this petition and hope you get all the sigs you need.I just wish the petition wasn't so vague.Basically it petitions to protect wolves across the nation but does not suggest how congress do this or even offer measures for both sides of the lobby to consider.Though it would be great to protect wolves nation wide,at the moment that doesn't seem practical(while wolves are not on the endangered list) with states issuing their own regulations on the issue and them having to take into account public interest in an outright ban.
Since you have mentioned Yellowstone National park and wolf hunting there I feel I should touch on that.Yes, wolf numbers are a national issue but more immediate action needs to be taken up with the state and its congressional leaders.At the moment it looks like they are backing the continued hunt."Any effort to reinstitute a closure on wolf killing near Yellowstone could be rendered moot by a measure that gained unanimous approval Friday in the House.That bill, co-sponsored by Republicans Rep. Kelly Flynn of Townsend and Rep. Ted Washburn of Bozeman, includes a provision to prohibit the state from creating no-hunting buffer zones around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks."
"Hunting outfitters and other supporters of Montana's wolf season say driving down wolf numbers is key to reducing the predators' attacks on livestock and big game herds." This is the real problem,public opinion in that area.There is no doubt in my mind that some day we will reinstate wolves protected status.Officials are pushing to loosen wolf hunting laws and with public opinion supporting this there will come a time when we will have to put them back on the endangered list.
"Three of the wolves from Yellowstone that were harvested in 2012 were of high social rank (e.g., alpha female or beta male), which could affect reproduction, hunting behavior, and territory defense for the respective packs over the short term."" Wolves often quickly fill vacant biological and social niches that are a result of wolf losses from any cause." Though that last part doesn't make it better it is some sort of concession.Until we learn to live with nature there will be always be a need to petition the protection of different forms of life on the planet.It's a shame and I don't see humans as a whole gaining a moral compass that doesn't put them at the top of the food chain.


Bills proposed
Flynn bill- http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/billpdf/HB0073.pdf
Washburn bill- http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2013/billhtml/HB0031.htm
Souces
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-north ... seaso.html
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-re ... f887a.html
http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/2012wolfhunt.htm
Contact
Flynn- http://www.leg.mt.gov/css/Sessions/63rd ... WSID=12613
Washburn- http://www.leg.mt.gov/css/Sessions/63rd ... WSID=13699

[Uniform Two Six]

The real issue here is a little muddled due to extremists on both sides. Basically, the ranchers are having issues with wolf-predation on domestic livestock. It's all about money, and especially in the current economic climate it's a major issue when a single lost animal can represent a financial loss in the thousands of dollars. Until now there were programs (both public and private) to reimburse losses as a way of avoiding wolf-hunts, but these too have largely fallen victim to the economic downturn. What the real bone of contention is however, is not hunting in Yellowstone. That is illegal under federal law and that's not going to be changing anytime soon. The only wolves being destroyed inside Yellowstone are being done by the National Park Service itself in order to abate so-called "problem-wolves" or "bold-wolves". These are wolves who have lost their natural fear of humans and are now approaching humans including tourists in search of hand-outs or unsecured refuse. The debate is really about hunting on public and private parcels on the periphery of the National Park lands, and this gets complicated further by the fact that many of the Yellowstone packs range both inside and outside of the administrative boundaries. There are a fair number of people who are questioning whether or not wolves should be protected in any way outside of the National Parks given that inside the parks, the wolves are extremely successful and not really endangered anymore (at least within those refuges). And if this is not complicated enough, there is the issue (to which the whole wolf thing is only peripherally involved) of the conflict between proponents of various schools of thought on the subject of land-use. Wyoming is one of the last states which still generally views land use in terms of resource extraction and agriculture and tends to be dismissive of recreation use. Most states have reoriented their views in the last few decades, and arguable Alaska is moving in that direction as well. Wyoming may be as well, but there will probably be a few long, drawn-out political battles to come, and the wolves are an iconic push-button-issue (and only one among many) that are going to get dragged into any debates between those political forces.