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The heartless killing in Idaho just got worse.
Defenders recently learned that 23 wolves were
shot and killed by helicopter gunmen, working for the Wildlife
Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
We need your help. We are the only national
organization with boots on the ground, organizing and building public
support for wolves in Idaho.
-Jamie
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Help Stop the Slaughter!
Idaho’s
wolves desperately need your help.
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More heartbreaking
news from Idaho.
We just learned that
federal gunmen aerially shot and killed 23 wolves last month in the
Lolo zone, a remote area in north-central Idaho.
The slaughter was
carried out by the Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture – a federally funded hit squad responsible for
exterminating millions of animals every year.
Defenders
is the only national organization with boots on the ground, organizing
and building public support for wolves in Idaho.
Defenders has raised
many concerns about Wildlife Services abuses in the past. Thanks to
you, and other activists raising the alarm, an official investigation
into this rogue agency was launched late last year by the Office of the
Inspector General for the Department of Agriculture.
But
the heartless killing continues.
Defenders is calling
upon President Obama to order a complete moratorium on all Wildlife
Services killings of wolves and other top predators – until that
investigation has been completed.
This latest round of
aerial slaughter came at the request of Idaho state officials, who have
pushed through a brutal agenda of wolf extermination in an attempt to
increase elk numbers for hunting. Idaho continues it’s bad faith
management of the state’s wolf population that was stripped of federal
protection only three years ago.
This marks a new
chapter in the bloody war on wolves being waged in the Northern
Rockies.
Thanks for standing
with us to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife.
Sincerely,
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Jamie Rappaport
Clark
President
Defenders of Wildlife
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5 comments:
Obviously Jamie Rappaport Clark does not have to depend on ranching for her livelihood, nor does she have any idea of the importance of ranching in the overall scheme of things. The wolf population, several years ago, declined as nature dictated. The re-introduction of wolves in Idaho was a human intervention in a natural process. Further, I doubt Ms. Clark has ever seen wolves take down and kill a cow, or an elk for that matter, nor has she observed the carnage that is left when the wolves are done. How would she feel if she watched wolves snatch calves as they are being born from the cows before they even hit the ground, drag them out of the mother as soon as they appear, while the mother is unable to even attempt to protect her baby? Wolves are an incredible killing machine, and if allowed to increase as they have been the past few years, will not only destroy ranchers livelihood, but herds of deer and elk, already threatened by recent forest fires and the loss of habitat. As wolves increase in numbers, and become more emboldened by necessity and the need for more prey, it's only a matter of time before some human, perhaps a child, is killed by wolves. Or perhaps an elderly hiker. A full grown man in excellent health would be no match for a pair of hungry wolves, unless he had a weapon. Wolves do not belong in populated areas, or areas such as parks and recreation areas where they now proliferate, thanks to the efforts of a few misguided interlopers. I applaud Ms. Rapports support of wildlife, but having said that, I would not support the introduction of more rattlesnakes, or perhaps a copperhead or two, into our rural areas. The idea that wolves are "imperiled" is ludicrous. Experience has shown that in Idaho, wolves have increased exponentially since the reintroduction of "a few pairs of grey wolves" a few years ago. I know ranchers here who have lost as many as 19 cows to wolves. At up to $2,000 per animal, that is a loss that few will be able to sustain, especially as wolves continue to increase over the coming yeas, unless we control them. I support the efforts of wildlife officers, and I commend the marksmanship of the helicopter hunters. Ms. Rapport claims "boots on the ground", but I'll bet they're not her boots. Not out where the wolves roam. Ms. Rapport could serve us all better if she would turn her efforts to "reign in this rogue agency" to the U.S. Department of Justice, or perhaps the NSA.
People ...since the wolf has been protected it has flourished and now is a threat to all other animals and food for human beings. A wolf is a predator, not a dog! It kills period. I'm in the upper peninsula of Michigan and we just now finally got an open season on wolves. They have not only reduced our deer herd but also have been raiding the farmers herds of cattle, and other animals. The people in the U.P. use deer to feed their families and they only take what they need to feed their families, the deer poplulation is down and it makes it more serious for pets and people when these wolves are hungry.
Please get all the facts before you jump on-board with these people that place animal life above and before human beings. We are to be good stewards of what our Creator has placed in our care, but there is a very good reason why certain species must become extinct....such as the dinosaurs.
Perhaps some of these people should try living in Idaho before they jump on this band wagon. Wolves in certain parts of Idaho and Montana travel in gangs and kill all the baby deer, baby elk, and baby moose. Hunters come upon graveyards of wild animal bones that have been killed by wolves. Not only that they are extremely dangerous to anyone hiking or working in the forest. Plus they kill cattle and sheep as well as other domestic animals. I love wolves too, but they can get out of hand. So which do you want to protect? All the wolves or all the other wild animals, such as the deer, elk, antelope, and moose population? Sometimes I think that some of these people don't know what its like living in the wild or on the edge of the forest. Wonder how they'd feel if a pack of wolves were after them, oh let me pet the cute little guys, or here (I know you're hungary) have a chunk of my leg to eat!
Before you go defending the wolves, 1 these are non-native species, 2 they are decimating the elk populations and cattle, Costing millions in damage. 3 they are exploding in population....
Kill all the wolves in the Idaho Washington area they are killing all the Elk and Deer. There are so many they are coming into towns. We had them in with in 200 yrds of the house with children and pets in danger .My children carry pepper spray with them all the time because they follow you around. These wolves are 120 -220 lbs not native wolves but great northern wolves . They are taller than a guard rail on the side of the road. They are very big and kill everything they can. Not Happy !!!!. If you don't want them Killed . Send money to feed them. !!!!!
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