Wolf Prints
Name = Jessica
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Comments = I just wanted to say I LOVE your wolf prints! They are my favorite because wolves are my favorite animal! And I love that you put on your site the info about all the senseless wolf killing that is happening in the U.S.
Why Are Wolves Endangered?
There are many reasons, most people used to be afraid of wolves and thought they were dangerous to humans. For a long time, people would get money for bringing in a dead wolf. This is called bounty hunting (between 1850 and 1900 more than a million wolves were killed. In 1907 the call was given for the total extinction of the species.)
People also used to poison wolves, poisoning is probably the main reason there are so few wolves left today.
Over the centuries, the wolf has come to mean different things to different cultures. Revered as a deity, or reviled as a devil, the wolf has often paid with its life for crimes it did not commit.
Tester, Reid, Obama Sell Out Wolves
Center for Biological Diversity 04-14-2011
The dire wolf situation in the northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest got catastrophically worse Tuesday when Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) placed a rider on the must-pass federal budget bill stripping protections for endangered gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah and setting the stage for near-term delisting in Wyoming. Making matters worse, the rider also strips citizens of their right to challenge the delisting in court, while preserving anti-wolf lawsuits brought by Wyoming and others.
Congress has never previously overridden the Endangered Species Act to remove a species from the endangered list. The rider could easily have been stopped by Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House, but instead they used it as a political bargaining chip in a last-minute deal designed to help Tester get re-elected in 2012. Tester, who is one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the upcoming elections, has cynically decided to engage in a wolf-hating contest with his Republican opponent in a bid for conservative votes.
To head off the impending legislation, the Center for Biological Diversity and nine other groups negotiated a settlement with the Department of the Interior to keep protection for wolves in Washington, Oregon and Utah; strike down the Bush-era policy used to justify elimination of protections in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming; preserve the right of citizens to challenge all future listing decisions in court; and establish an independent scientific panel to determine the long-term recovery needs of northern Rockies wolves. Unfortunately, the court rejected the settlement due to opposition by four conservation groups, giving us no leverage to rally senators against Tester and Reid. The budget bill could be passed as early as today -- anti-wolf rider included.
Read the press release (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/index.html) for more details, and please join us in sending a letter to the president letting him know how important wolves are to you and urging him to oppose the wolf rider.
Copy and paste this url......to petition President Obama
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/t/5243/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6508
Wolf Kill Halted In Oregon July 8, 2010
In response to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, federal wildlife control agents last Friday temporarily called off plans to kill two endangered gray wolves in Oregon. Our lawsuit challenged the legality of the state-sponsored killing, especially because there are only 14 known wolves in the entire state. The wolves are being targeted because six cattle were killed in eastern Oregon in late May. The lethal action was ordered even though the depredations happened more than a month ago in an area where livestock carcasses -- always a draw for hungry predators -- were left out on ranch lands. During the month-long delay we won, the court will consider whether a "preliminary injunction" should be granted, which would give the wolves a longer reprieve.
The killing is being conducted under the auspices of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Service's wolf-management plan. Last week, the Center submitted comments in a review of this plan, arguing that it needs to be fixed to ensure that ranchers take all measures to avoid attracting wolves, as well as to increase recovery goals for wolves in Oregon above the paltry four wolves now called for in the plan.
Gray Wolves Lose Protections;
Suit Brewing Over Imminent Wolf Slaughter
The feds' April 2, 2009 rule went into effect to prematurely remove federal protections for gray wolves in the northern Rockies, Great Lakes region, and other areas -- just more than a month after the rule was finalized and the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, represented by Earthjustice, filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue. The rule -- the same rule published in Bush's last days and temporarily put on hold when President Barack Obama came on the scene -- is a follow-through on a Bush administration plan to increase federal and private wolf hunting. Many states are already figuratively rubbing their hands in glee at their new wolf-killing privileges: Idaho plans to kill hundreds of wolves, many of which will be brutally gunned down from the air, while Great Lakes states will allow the killing of significant numbers of wolves even as disease is killing pups. Wolves in Wyoming are the only ones that will keep their federal safeguards -- because Wyoming refused to provide the minimal state protections other states promised (which are still grossly inadequate). Besides affecting wolves in the northern Rockies and western Great Lakes, the rule also undermines wolf recovery in a third of eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, as well as a portion of northern Utah -- though wolf presence in those regions is barely budding.
Despite the fact that they submitted their notice of intent to sue the very day the wolf-dooming rule was finalized, the Center must legally wait 60 days to file suit -- while the feds only had to wait a month to put their rule into effect. As Center wolf expert Michael Robinson asserts, "We fear that once again wolves will be wantonly slaughtered before a court can rule."
Suit Filed to Stop Rockies Wolf Slaughter
June 10, 2009
Challenging the feds' second legal assault in less than a year on northern Rockies gray wolves, this Tuesday the Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its removal of wolves in Idaho, Montana, and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah from the endangered species list. On April 2, the Obama administration finalized the Bush administration's proposal to delist wolves and leave them to the mercy of state-authorized hunting and unconstrained federal "predator control" -- potentially reducing the wolves' numbers from about 1,500 to just 200 to 300 in Idaho and Montana. Wolves in Yellowstone National Park declined by 27 percent in the past year, and wolves in greater Yellowstone, central Idaho, and northwest Montana haven't yet achieved the interconnectivity needed for long-term survival.
After the federal government's last removal of wolf protections in spring 2008, conservation groups (including the Center) successfully sued to get protections reinstated -- but unfortunately, not before more than 100 wolves had been killed. The current delisting rule excludes Wyoming, whose wolf-slaughter plan was remanded by the court, but will still leave vast areas permanently wolfless. We aim to ensure that wolves regain their protections and are allowed to expand their ranges to the remaining important habitats where they once lived. "Wolves are still endangered," said the Center's Michael Robinson, "and we believe the court will see through this smoke-and-mirrors act."
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