Group Pushing for Wolves to be Put Back into all lower 48 States

This article was pulled directly from ‘Heraldextra.com’

BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists said Tuesday they intend to sue the Obama administration to force it to restore gray wolves across the lower 48 states — even as Republicans in Congress sought unsuccessfully to strip the animals of protection.

The Center for Biological Diversity said in a formal notice to the Interior Department that it will sue the agency in 60 days unless the government crafts a plan to bring back wolves throughout their historical range.

“Wolves once roamed nearly the whole country and down into Mexico, but at this point there just in a fraction of that range,” said Noah Greenwald, director of endangered species for the Center for Biological Diversity.

About 6,000 wolves live in the lower 48 states. They are protected from hunting except in Alaska.

Biologists for the Arizona-based group argue there is enough wild habitat to support thousands of wolves in New England and New York, the southern Rocky Mountains, parts of Colorado and the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington.

But prospects for new wolf packs in other parts of the country are uncertain at best, given how polarized the debate over wolves has become in recent months.

Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has pushed to end federal protections for wolves and turn control over the animals over to states. Lawmakers from states where wolves already roam say there are too many of the predators.

On Tuesday, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, tried to force a full Senate vote on a bill to strip wolves nationwide of federal protections.

The measure was backed by Republicans in Wyoming and Utah, but failed in the face of Democratic objections.

Wolves were poisoned and trapped to near-extermination in the United States in the last century. They have bounced back in some wilderness areas over the last few decades, in part through government-sponsored reintroduction programs.

Crapo said the growing population of wolves in the Northern Rockies — more than 1,700 at the end of 2009 — was harming big game herds and domestic livestock.

“The longer we wait to resolve this issue, the more difficult it’s going to be,” he said.

But Sen. Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said the Republican bill would undermine the Endangered Species Act. He criticized what he called an attempt “to solve politically what should be done by good science.”

Cardin suggested he would support a compromise pushed by Montana lawmakers and the administration that would limit the scope of the bill to include only wolves in the Northern Rockies.

Crapo said that proposal was unacceptable because it would have forced Idaho to change the way it manages the animals.

Public hunts for wolves were allowed briefly in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in recent years. Those were halted after the federal government was rebuffed by the courts in several attempts to take the animal off the endangered list.

Judges have ruled that the government has not proved existing wolf numbers would ensure the population’s long-term survival.

Wolves are notorious predators. Experts say they could survive in most of the country if they were allowed. But a hunger for livestock often gets the animals into trouble, particularly in the Northern Rockies where ranches and wolf territories often overlap.

Young adult wolves sometimes travel hundreds of miles when looking to establish a new territory. In the last several years, packs have gained a toehold in parts of Oregon and Washington. Others have been spotted in Colorado, Utah and northern New England.

“We’ve learned from where wolves have been reintroduced that they have a tremendous benefit,” Greenwald, of the Center for Biological Diversity, said. “They force elk to move around more, which allows riparian vegetation to come back and increases songbirds, and they control coyote populations.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently analyzing research into wolf genetics to see how populations in different parts of the country relate to one another.

Agency spokesman Chris Tollefson on Tuesday said the effort is not part of a nationwide recovery plan, but declined to say if it could be used for such an effort in the future.

He said results of the agency’s work are expected in early 2011.

“It’s designed to establish the best scientific foundation to make future management decisions about wolves. That’s about all I can say about it at this point,” Tollefson said.

We will fight this and do whatever it takes to stop wolves from being reintroduced back into the 48. – Hunters Against PETA

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New Mexican Wolf Dies

This article was pulled directly from NewsWest9.com

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a Mexican gray wolf found dead in southwestern New Mexico in October probably died of an intestinal rupture.

A preliminary report says the female wolf from the Morgart pack ingested a plastic ear tag commonly used on domestic cattle and that a rupture in the small intestines likely killed the animal.

An analysis found no sign of cattle hair in the wolf’s digestive tract, and officials had no reports of wolf-related cattle depredations in the area.

Fish and Wildlife law enforcement says the wolf’s death appears to be accidental.

The agency wasn’t able to determine how the animal swallowed an ear tag.

The federal government began releasing wolves in 1998 along the Arizona-New Mexico border in an effort to establish a wild population.

We wonder where the cow is that was wearing that plastic ear tag? – Hunters Against PETA

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All Sportsmen in America Need to Voice Their Opinions to the New Mexico Game Commision

It seems these days you can't read a headline or talk to someone without hearing news about animal rights groups trying to change the laws. Their main goal and purpose in life to get all animals throughout the whole world 100% protected. That means no eating any kind of meat, hunting, fishing, trapping and even milking cows for milk.



As of yesterday November 1st, 2010 trapping has been banned in New Mexico. This ban was of course fronted and pushed by animal rights groups as such is the case with any new law that protects animals. Behind every new animal protection law you can bet there's an animal rights group that thought it up and is pushing it to get passed.



Animal rights groups are reasoning that this new trapping ban has been established to protect the Mexican Gray Wolf which is now protected in AZ and NM.



Having done research on this particular issue I've come to the conclusion that this ban and like all animal rights groups motive's is an attempt to get them one step closer to their target goal which is to shut down all forms of hunting, trapping and fishing.



Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and that's what makes this country the best country in the world. However when animal rights groups spend millions of dollars and thousands of man hours towards getting our hunting and fishing rights taken away it's time to stand up and fight. Hunting, trapping and fishing are sports that we all love and something that none of us could even imagine being without.



I urge everyone who reads this to contact the New Mexico Game Commission and voice your opinion in disapproval. If they can take away our trapping rights in New Mexico then they can do it anywhere and everywhere.



Here are the people you need to contact at the New Mexico Game Commission to voice your disapproval of this ban:



Commission Mailing addresses:
Jim McClintic
Chairman
PO Box 21027
Albuquerque, NM 87154
jmsconst@comcast.net

Sandy Buffett
Vice-Chair
320 Aztec St Suite B
Santa Fe, NM 87501
sandyNMGC@gmail.com

Tom Arvas
7905 Spain NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
tomarvas@hotmail.com

M.H. “Dutch” Salmon
PO Box 878
Silver City, NM 88062
dutch@high-lonesomebooks.com

Gary Fonay
5333 North Baggett
Hobbs, NM 88242
GWFonay@aol.com

Kent Salazar
1621 Vassar Drive SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
kentsala@aol.com

Thomas “Dick” Salopek
975 Holcomb Road
Las Cruces, NM 88007
dicksalopek@hotmail.com

Game Department addresses:

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Wildlife Management Division
1 Wildlife Way
Santa Fe, NM 87507
nmdeptofgameandfish@state.nm.us

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Wolf Poll Out Of Montana

New Poll Being Conducted by the Bozeman Chronicle out of Montana
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

“Do you agree with recently proposed legislation that would remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act?”

Sportsmen please vote “YES” to help get wolves off of the Endangered Species List.

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/poll_60d42232-cf43-11df-a90d-001cc4c002e0.html


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Good Words From Ted Nugent!

With the beautiful Atlantic Ocean whitecapping out my hotel window on Fort Lauderdale Beach this fine American rock ‘n ‘roll summer morning, the only thing more beautiful is my handsome, oh-so-utilitarian Glock Model 20, 10 mm semi-auto pistol and 12 loaded high-capacity magazines sitting on the little table next to me. I am such a man for all seasons. Can you say cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc?

I’m on my 47th annual blitzkrieg rock ‘n’ roll tour across America. I have many guitars, oversized amplifiers and plenty of guns and ammo. The American Boy Scout lives. Prepared is good. Unprepared is for losers. Know it.

By all intellectually honest considerations, my gift of life qualifies as supreme, and not only worthy of defending, but clearly demanding to be defended by all moral beings.

And speaking of losers, sadly and frighteningly, some weasels made their way onto the Supreme Court who apparently do not agree with me. Fortunately, I am a self-made man, have a firm grasp of logic, self-evident truth and its history, and I wait for no one to authorize my pure instinct to defend myself and loved ones. When in doubt, I whip it out.

Like many real Americans across this great country, while we are relieved and pleased with the McDonald v. Chicago ruling of five Supreme Court justices, I am appalled that any clear-thinking human being, much less an American sitting on the Supreme Court of the United States, could possibly believe that individual Americans have no right to self-defense. That four of the nine justices believe this is a monumental indictment against the very precepts of the American experiment, the premise of God-given individual rights and a cruel bastardization of our sacred U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

If anyone thinks for one minute that I am waiting for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg or anyone else to give me the green light to practice the religion of my choice or to speak my individual mind or to write what I damn well please in song or on the pages of newspapers, magazines or websites, he has another painful thing coming.

Heads up, black-robers. I am in charge of my life, survival, thoughts, statements, writings, religious practices and, without a shadow of a doubt, my God-given individual right to keep and bear arms to defend myself from evil in any shape or form. With all due respect, I see and know clear and present evil in tyranny, dictatorships, emperors, kings, despots, slave drivers and the history of abuse of power. And I defy it out of hand.

If ever there was an abuse of power, it would be most egregious when people are voted into public office by “we the people” of America and those elected people have the audacity to attempt to deny me the right to self-defense, then have the unmitigated pomposity to steal more of my hard-earned tax dollars to hire their own armed security detail with my money while forcing me into unarmed helplessness. It must stop now. Know it.

With the Mao Zedong fan club in the White House, a clueless, rookie president hellbent on spending like a maniac as unprecedented debt piles up all around him, and every other imaginable indicator of an America turned upside-down, it comes as no surprise that this insane level of madness has metastasized into a Supreme Court where the Bill of Rights is being trashed by clueless, dangerously insulated old people intentionally disconnected from the real world, where the possession of a firearm often means the difference between life and death for good, innocent Americans every day of the year.

Whose side are these “justices” on?

To dismiss this self-evident truth is literally to side with a failed court system and the evil perpetrators of its insidious, engineered recidivism, virtually guaranteeing stacks of dead victims at the hands of released monsters, while the supreme black-robers go about their professionally protected little lives.

Tell me these four Supreme Court justices don’t know this. Tell me they qualify to have any variation of the term “justice” associated with their names in any way, shape or form. Tell me you believe in forced unarmed helplessness of good American families. Tell me you care. Ask me if I do.

We’d better get crackin’, America. The Supreme Court indecision on the Second Amendment (and I don’t want to hear about the close call) is further proof that the American way is being attacked like never before. I hope all Americans are raising hell like I am, letting elected officials know that we are deeply offended by the course America is on. Fedzilla in all its ugly forms is beyond out of control. The Mao Zedong fan club is moving forward at a breakneck pace to disassemble fundamentally the American dream. It must be stopped.

This blatant disregard for the most basic human right and instinct to self-defense is as bad as it gets. It is time to clean house. Time for real hope and change. I hope we change back to the real America as fast as possible. My life is worth protecting, and my American dream is worth fighting to get back.

“To keep” means it’s mine – you can’t have it. “Bear arms” can only mean one thing: I’ve got some on me right here, right now. “Shall not be infringed” also needs no interpretation, unless you just don’t get it. Get it. And get it right.

Ted Nugent

“What better way to kick off the 4th of July then to read something like this from someone who cares more about our rights as Americans than anyone alive I know. You have our full support Ted Nugent.” – Jason Fackrell

Happy 4th of July America!

Freedom Is Not Free.

Jason Fackrell – Founder of Hunters Against PETA

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