Reposted from Lobos of the Southwest.

WILL NEW PROPOSAL HELP OR HURT 

THE ENDANGERED MEXICAN WOLF?

We can still help our beautiful little critically endangered Mexican Gray Wolf Buddies.
We still have time. Take action please ! :
http://keepwolveslisted.blogspot.com/2014/01/reposted-from-lobos-of-southwest.html

Although the current public comment period on the FWS’s proposal has ended, you can still voice your opinion in this debate. According to Sargent, a new comment period will open in the coming months, along with more public hearings, when the FWS releases an Environmental Impact Statement based on the changes.

Howell recommends that people also reach out to their government representatives directly. And you can even join a social media campaign on Twitter — just use the hashtag #IAmEssential to voice your support of the Mexican wolf as an essential species that needs protection.

VetStreet, January 22, 2014  (posted 01/29/14)

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) introduced a proposal last year to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list. The move resulted in controversy when scientists and conservationists argued that the species has not yet recovered enough to lose protections.

Although the future of the gray wolf remains unclear if this proposal is passed, the FWS is requesting that protections be kept for one gray wolf subspecies: the Mexican wolf. The proposal makes Mexican wolves the only gray wolf not to lose endangered status in the lower 48 states. The FWS will maintain protection and expand recovery efforts for the subspecies in the Southwest, calling this wolf “the only remaining entity that warrants protection under the [Endangered Species] Act.”

The subspecies’ continued protection is viewed as a positive move, but some other changes to the recovery plan have conservationists worried.

On the Brink of Extinction

“Mexican wolves are critically endangered. At the end of 2012, there was a population count of only 75 in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico,” says Maggie Howell, executive director of the Wolf Conservation Center.

By the 1970s, this subspecies was extinct in the wild. They were bred in captivity and only reintroduced in 1998. Since then, the population has continued to struggle to survive. The Wolf Conservation Center currently has 13 Mexican wolves as a part of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association’s Species Survival Plan (SSP) Program and FWS Recovery Program. Over the years, some of their wolves have been released into the growing wild population, but Howell’s wolves have seen firsthand one of the biggest problems she says the subspecies faces: illegal killing.

“Two of our wolves, one released in 2006 and the other in 2008, from the center were killed just months after release,” she says.

According to Eva Sargent, Southwest program director for Defenders of Wildlife, the wolves are also suffering from inbreeding because the whole population was founded on just a few wolves. As a result, there is little genetic diversity in the group, and it’s made worse by wolves remaining in captivity for a long time.

“The overmanaged population is kept small, so they’ve lost a lot of genetic diversity. Genetic issues can be improved if more wolves are let into the wild from captivity, but that’s not happening,” Sargent says.

For the wolf to recover, scientists agree that there need to be three distinct populations of at least 750 wolves in the wild, but with these threats and some of the proposed changes, Howell and Sargent say we are far from reaching that goal.

The New Proposal

There are both positive and negative effects that the new FWS proposal will have on the subspecies. According to Sargent, wolves are currently allowed to move only within a small region of Arizona and New Mexico called the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area, but it will now be expanded into a slightly bigger range called the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area. It will also allow wolves to be released from captivity anywhere in this area, instead of restricting releases to one small section that previously slowed the process.

However, if wolves leave this area, they will be trapped and brought back into it. Sargent says this policy is limiting the population’s growth.

“The whole idea is that their numbers get larger and they disperse. You’re trading a little for the current population but undercutting the recovery in the long term,” Sargent says. “The habitats to support two additional populations needed are outside this box.”

Howell says that another problem is that the new proposal does not address the "nonessential experimental population" designation given to the Mexican wolf in 1998.

“This designation implies that if the current wolves were not to survive, it would not impact the recovery of the Mexican wolf because its genetics are represented in captivity,” she says. “It gives more leeway in terms of how people deal with this species. Most endangered species you are not allowed to kill or remove because they are so necessary to recovery, but because of the nonessential designation, [Mexican wolves] can be removed from the wild if they interfere with humans or industry.”

How to Help

Although the current public comment period on the FWS’s proposal has ended, you can still voice your opinion in this debate. According to Sargent, a new comment period will open in the coming months, along with more public hearings, when the FWS releases an Environmental Impact Statement based on the changes.

Howell recommends that people also reach out to their government representatives directly. And you can even join a social media campaign on Twitter — just use the hashtag #IAmEssential to voice your support of the Mexican wolf as an essential species that needs protection.

This article was posted to VetStreet on January 22, 2014.

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“There’s only one reason for hunting wolves and that’s for trophies and sport,” said Howard Goldman, the state director for the Humane Society of the United States.

MINNESOTA WILDLIFE MANAGERS SAY FEWER WOLVES BEING SHOT OR TRAPPED FOR PREDATOR CONTROL

http://keepwolveslisted.blogspot.com/2014/01/theres-only-one-reason-for-hunting.html

Posted on January 29, 2014 
by TWIN Observer
Article by: Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Fewer wolves are being shot or trapped for predator control in Minnesota, wildlife managers told a legislative hearing Tuesday evening as they defended how they’ve handled the resumption of hunting since the predators came off the endangered list two years ago this week.

The number of wolves killed because they were preying on livestock or pets fell from 295 in 2012 to 127 last year, said Dan Stark, large carnivore specialist with the Department of Natural Resources. He attributed the decline to the mild winter of 2011-12, not hunting. He said wolf depredation on livestock tends to increase during mild winters when it’s harder for wolves to chase down deer.

He also said the total of verified complaints of wolves preying on livestock and pet dogs fell from 122 to 70 from 2012 to 2013.

Stark told a House environment panel the levels of predation conflicts probably hasn’t been so low “since the about early 1990s, and so it’s quite a bit lower than it’s been in recent years.”

Opponents of wolf hunting, who have tried without success to stop the hunt, denounced it as inhumane. They testified it threatens the species’ long-term survival in Minnesota and disputed the idea that allowing recreational hunting and trapping is the most effective way to stop wolves from preying on livestock.

“There’s only one reason for hunting wolves and that’s for trophies and sport,” said Howard Goldman, the state director for the Humane Society of the United States.

Hunters and trappers killed 413 wolves in the state’s inaugural season and 237 in the season that closed Dec. 28. The DNR is expected to announce its plans for 2014 later this year.

“We understand that people have the right to protect their livestock, they have the right to protect human life,” said Maureen Hackett, founder of Howling for Wolves. But she said the state should focus on nonlethal control methods instead of “indiscriminate” methods such as snaring, which she said cause enormous suffering.

Stark also defended the DNR’s estimates of Minnesota’s wolf population, which it pegged at 2,211 as of last winter. The count was based on aerial surveys and other data, and is measured at the annual low point of the animal’s population before the pups were born. He said the methods could always be improved, but that would cost more money.

Critics argued that uncertainty in the counting methods — a rough margin of error of plus or minus 500 — meant the wolf population could have been as low as 1,652 last winter, which they said was dangerously close to the 1,600 minimum set by the DNR’s management plan.

A five-year hunting-and-trapping moratorium narrowly passed a Senate committee last year but got no further. The proposal’s prospects for advancing in the upcoming session are uncertain, but it faces opposition from influential lawmakers, hunters and farmers.

Tuesday’s hearing was informational only, and no vote was taken.

Source

This entry was posted in North Central, Wolves in the News by TWIN Observer.

http://www.timberwolfinformation.org/mn-minn-wildlife-managers-say-fewer-wolves-being-shot-or-trapped-for-predator-control/

January 28. 2014
IDAHO WOLF NEWS

http://keepwolveslisted.blogspot.com/2014/01/eye-on-boise-wolf-control-bill-barely.html

Wolves in Idaho caught a major reprieve yesterday !
Thank you to Western Watersheds Project and our co-plaintiffs Wilderness Watch, Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity and Dr. Ralph Maughan. All represented by attorney Tim Preso at Earthjustice.

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/435877/85b41d5ddd/1454001502/40ff770b14/

STATE -SPONSORED WOLF KILLING ENDS IN IDAHO
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/435877/85b41d5ddd/1454001502/40ff770b14/

And then we hear of this. On the same day.
From Idaho Governor "Butch" Otter, and Idaho Fish and Game.
2 Million dollars. 
To kill 500 Gray Wolves in Idaho.

This quote from "Butch" caught my eye.
Wouldn't this be exactly what WOULD put Idaho wolves BACK on the Endangered Species List under U.S. Federal protections?
Looks to me that slaughtering 500 of the wolves in Idaho, leaving the minimum required number of wolves at 150 is a rather radical approach to Idaho's "state led wolf management", using their "Wolf-Control Board". Surprised the term "wolf harvest" wasn't tossed in here somewhere.


“The intent of this control board is not to eliminate wolves. The last thing that anybody I know of in the state of Idaho wants to see is to have to have discussions about putting wolves back on the endangered species list. That is not the intent of this bill. This bill is to manage wolves where there are conflicts with other industries and they’re socially unacceptable.”
~ Idaho Governor "Butch" Otter

Reposted from the Spokesman Review

Eye On Boise
WOLF-CONTROL BILL BARELY INTRODUCED, ON CLOSE 9-8 VOTE
Posted by Betsy
Jan. 27, 2014 1:44 p.m.  •  3 comments

Legislation to carry out Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal for a new $2 million state wolf control fund and oversight board was introduced in the House Resources Committee this afternoon but only on a close, 9-8 vote after lots of questions. The bill, brought by Sen. Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson, and Rep. Marc Gibbs, R-Grace, would have the state set up a new control board not to make payments to livestock owners who lose animals to wolves, but to fund wolf-control efforts designed to control the state’s wolf population for which federal funds have fallen. “There are no new ways to control wolves being projected or being created by this bill,” Gibbs said. “They are simply subject to the tools we have today, which is sport hunting, trapping and aerial gunning.”

The livestock industry and hunting license fees would be tapped for yearly payments of up to $110,000 each to replenish the fund, which the governor wants to start with a $2 million one-time state appropriation.

New state Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, asked, “How is this a more cost-effective approach, to start a new board, than to put a little more money into Idaho Fish & Game so that they would be able to approach this problem within their existing framework?” Gibbs responded, “To me the importance of having a separate board of control is it gives the board the flexibility to work with anyone they need to in order to get their objectives.” He said, “The intent of this control board is not to eliminate wolves. The last thing that anybody I know of in the state of Idaho wants to see is to have to have discussions about putting wolves back on the endangered species list. That is not the intent of this bill. This bill is to manage wolves where there are conflicts with other industries and they’re socially unacceptable.”

The bill says the new five-member board would consist of the directors of the state departments of Agriculture and Fish & Game, and three gubernatorial appointees, one from a sportsmen’s group, one from the livestock industry, and one from the public at large.

Rep. Mike Moyle, R-Star, said he was concerned about the cost of setting up the new board, as opposed to using existing boards. “We’d have more money on the ground for dealing with the wolves,” he said. Asked how many wolves the fund would try to remove, Gibbs said it would follow the state’s wolf management plan, calling for a minimum wolf population of about 150. Rubel said that would require removing about 500 wolves, and at $2 million, would cost $4,000 a wolf.

Opponents of introducing the bill came from both parties and didn’t break down along party lines; the motion initially appeared to have failed on a tied vote, but then Gibbs noted that he hadn’t voted, and his “yes” vote provided the one-vote majority to introduce the measure.


Tags 2014 Idaho Legislature
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2014/jan/27/wolf-control-bill-barely-introduced-close-9-8-vote/

January 27. 2014

Thank you Earth Justice!!!

STATE-SPONSORED WOLF KILLING 

ENDS IN IDAHO

http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/state-sponsored-wolf-killing-ends-in-idaho

WOLVES AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: ECOLOGICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS

Reposted from SanDiego Loves Green

October 9. 2013

http://keepwolveslisted.blogspot.com/2014/01/wolves-and-human-well-being-ecological.html

Wolves play an integral role in maintaining the health of wildlife and ecosystems, and indirectly, livestock and public health. Recognition of this role and its ecological ramifications calls for greater respect, protection and incresed numbers of wolves in appropriate habitats across North America. Current federal and state government initiatives, backed by diverse vested interests, are poised to reduce the nation’s existing wolf population which is contrary to the directives of sound science, reason and the public interest.

State wildlife management practices directed to maximize deer numbers for recreational hunters, rural America’s virtual extermination of the wolf over the past two centuries, coupled with forest management practices and agricultural expansion indirectly providing feed for deer and the encroachment of real estate housing developments with deer-attracting gardens and vegetation in municipal parks, have had unforseen consequences associated with high White tail deer numbers; and elk in western states. Two of these unforseen consequences concern public health and potential harm to the livestock industry which a higher population of wolves across the U.S. would do much to recitify.

According to the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, “After the young (fawns) are born each spring, there are between 900,000 and 1,000,000  (White tail) deer in Minnesota. The hunting season is important to keep the deer population from getting too large. Each year, Minnesota hunters harvest between 150,000 and 200,000 deer”.

Wolf Hunting – Wolf Hunting  

http://www.all-about-wolves.com/

Hunters seek out the healthiest deer and trophy antler- bearers in particular. A seasonal hunt eliminating almost one quarter of the deer population means starvation for wolf in deer-hunted zones at the start of winter. This probably increases their predation on livestock. Increasing deer hunting quotas to better regulate deer numbers is not a biologically appropriate response even though it is a multibillion-dollar source of revenue for states and equipment suppliers.

Wolves prey on deer year-round, taking the slower ones weakened by injury and disease, and therefore play a significant role in controlling diseases carried by deer, notably prion-causing Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). This disease also affects mule deer, elk and moose and is now spreading across the U.S.and Canada. Wolves are probably immune. But if these prions mutate and cross the species barrier and affect livestock, especially since prions have now been found in plants consumed by deer and also in agricultural crops consumed by livestock and humans, the consequences could have devastating economic consequences for the livestock industry. This could mirror the ‘mad cow’ disease-causing prion debacle in the U.K., which lead to mass slaughter and export bans to protect consumers of cattle infected with this form of spongioform encephalopathy from acquiring the debilitating and eventually fatal brain degeneration called Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. Dr.Christopher Johnson with the U.S. Geological Survey, Madison, WI, who found  prions in crops and vegetation consumed by deer, concludes that their findings “suggest that prions are taken up by plants and that contaminated plants may represent a previously unrecognized risk of human, domestic species and wildlife exposure to CWD and scrapie agents.”

Curious Wolf Pups – Wolf Hunting 

 http://www.all-about-wolves.com/

In October 2013 it was reported that cattle in Wisconsin were diagnosed with contracting insect-born deer epizootic hemorrhagic disease, a first and a warning for the livestock industry of the need to better monitor deer numbers and disease risks, especially CWD. [Deer, elk and buffalo ranchers across the country may put wildlife and livestock at risk when unwittingly keeping animals infected with CWD and other diseases communicable to ungulates wild and domestic, including Brucellosis (Bang’s disease) Johne’s disease and tuberculosis].

Organic farmers and environmentally conscious ranchers have long recognized the role of predators and other wildlife species in helping preserve healthy ecosystems around and within their lands. An ecological approach to states’ wildife management and predator control policies and practices, moving away from what amounts to wildlife farming for recreational sports hunters of deer, elk and other selected species is called for now. In the final analysis the wolf, long reviled by cattle and sheep ranchers and seen as a competitor to be exterminated by many deer hunters, may be the ultimate savior of America’s livestock industry and of  healthier deer and other wildlife numbers if the prion-induced Chronic Wasting Disease and other deer diseases communicable to livestock and other species, including humans, is to be stemmed biologically through wolf predation. This means more wolves in deer and elk habitat, (and also cougars, bears and lynx).

The Centers for Disease Control have documented over 30,000 cases of tick-born Lyme disease in humans in 2012, (other estimates being as high as 300,000), this disease being harbored by rodents and deer and which wolves can also play an indirect role in helping control. These concerns underscore the need for a revolution in state and federal wildlife and natural resource management. The adoption of principles and practices that enhance biodiversity and healthy ecosystems domestic, commerical and wild, with greater protection for wolves as an integral aspect of a more enlightened and science-based approach to a better environment for all is the core principle of the One Health movement now being embraced world wide by medical, veterinary and other authorities and agencies.

Michael W. Fox DSc, PhD, BVetMed, MRCVS

The article above was written by Dr. Michael W. Fox, who is the author of more than 40 books including The Soul of the Wolf, The Wild Canids: Their Systematics, Behavioral Ecology and Evolution, and Inhumane Society: The American Way of Exploiting Animals. He serves on the Science Advisory Board of Project Coyote  ~ a national non-profit organization based in Marin County, California promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy. For more information visit: ProjectCoyote.org

REFERENCES

1. Angers RC, Seward TS, Napier D, Green M, Hoover E, Spraker T, et al (2009). Chronic wasting disease prions in elk antler velvet. Emerg Infect Dis.May

2.  J. Zhang (2012) Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1106.4628: The Nature Of The Infectious Agents: PrP Models Of Resistant Species To Prion Diseases (Dog, Rabbit And Horses) Published in Prions and Prion Diseases: New Developments (J.M. Verdier Eds.), NOVA Science Publishers, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61942-768-6, Chapter 2, pages 41-48

3. Johnson, Christopher, (2013) Uptake of Prions into Plants. In session Current Science of Chronic Wasting Disease: What Have We Learned in the Last 5 Years? The Wildlife Society Milwaukee WI Oct 2013

4. Schultz, Rob, (2013) Rare Disease reported in Wisconsin Cattle Wisconsin State Journal, Oct 3.

5. Levi, Taal, et al.  Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease PNAS 2012 ; published ahead of print June 18, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204536109   www.pnas.org/cgi/content..

6. Fox, M.W., (2012)Lyme Disease, Wildlife Management and Public Health www.drfoxvet.com see also M.W. Fox (2012) Healing Animals & the Vision of One Health. Amazon.com/CreateSpace Books.

By |Wednesday, October 9, 2013|Mammals, Project Coyote

http://www.sandiegolovesgreen.com/wolves-and-human-well-being-ecological-public-health-concerns/

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2,673 DEAD GRAY WOLVES

January 25. 2014

Here is the breakdown for the number of Gray Wolves that have paid with their lives for this seriously flawed decision to remove ESA protection status from the Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states of the U.S.A.

Idaho, Montana, Wyoming 

( Rocky Mountains USA ) 

Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin 

( mid Western USA ) 

The number of wolf fatalities are starting from the date they were delisted in that state.
The final numbers will be updated on the official end date of wolf hunt season, as they become available.
Some states have gone over their quota already.
The USFWS has proposed further removal of protections in the remaining Lower 42 states.
Over a million "pro wolves" commented that they did not approve of delisting, that our Gray Wolves have not made a full recovery and are constantly under siege by the state Wildlife Services here that allow state managed wolf hunting seasons.

Idaho:
698 wolves (454 hunter kills + 244 trapper kills). Season closed 3/31/13.
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 175 
UPDATED > 214
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/hunt/?getPage=121
From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally:873 > 912


Montana:
391 wolves (294 hunter kills + 97 trapper kills). Season closed 2/28/13
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 124 > 
UPDATED 171
http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/planahunt/huntingGuides/wolf/ 
From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally:515 > 562

Wyoming:
92 wolves as of 8/16/13
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 55. 
FINAL TALLY :61 ~ Updated 1. 9. 2014
http://wgfd.wyo.gov/web2011/Departments/Hunting/pdfs/WOLF_SUMMARY0005148.pdf
From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally:147 > 153

Michigan: 
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 23
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12205-32569--,00.html
From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally: 23

Minnesota:
412 wolves (213 hunter kills + 199 trapper kills).
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 237 Wolves 
http://m.startribune.com/?id=237978281 

* Seventeen wolf deaths over proposed target in Northwest and Northeast Zone
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/wolf/index.html
149 Wolves via DNR 
(excludes early season ~ late season tally only)

From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally:628 > 649

Wisconsin:
117 wolves (55 hunter kills + 62 trapper kills)
2013/2014 Hunt Season: 257 Wolves ~ FINAL TALLY
* Six wolf deaths over allowed quota
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/wolf.html
From date of delist to December 31.2013 Tally:374

The toll of delisting our U.S.A. Gray Wolves from the E.S.A. protections administered through USFWS, Director Dan Ashe and Sectretary Sally Jewell, from delist date to January 2, 2014 :


2,673 Dead Gray Wolves due to state led wolf management policies.

Heyya President Obama!

How are you?
Hopefully very well.

I need to speak with you about a matter that really should never have been a
concern, but unfortunately it is. A very real, extremely contentious, and important matter.

The issue of our Gray Wolves in the U.S.A.

Don't know how much you have been following this conflict, so I'll share the info that I have.

Well, Wolves  in the USA were protected under the umbrella of the Endangered Species Act, until
2009.  ( Because they were pretty much rendered extinct in the USA, thanks to very successful wolf hunting.) A group of concerned scientists managed to get their hands on some wolves from Canada, and cart them back to the USA,.
I like to refer to that as the Genesis of the Gray Wolf Recovery.

So, now we have some wolves in the Lower 48, they are hanging out in the western USA, Rocky Mountain states.
Wolves do what wolves do. They feast on elk, deer, occassionally a bison, and they live in packs. Sometimes extended packs. ( Friendly in laws, go figure! )
The wolves love each other,  sometimes, and then they have children.
We call them wolf pups or wolf cubs.

So, all is well in the newly re-established realm of  wolves. Or so it seems.
( Sorry for the long wind up, but it has been ....years )

Starting ..... your appointed Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazaar, whom if I am not mistaken, may have been more sympathetic to the ranching industry versus the community of US citizens who have paid in many tax dollars for this Gray Wolf Recovery.
Under Mr. Salazaar's reign we witnessed the U.S. states of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan rally successfully and convince the USFWS that wolves in their states had reached a recovery level that would no longer merit protection as endangered species under the ESA.
(Actually, you can catch the latest word from your employee at the USFWS, Director Dan Ashe.
He has his own blog. http://www.fws.gov/director/dan-ashe/?mode=entry&entry=1EB26400-DCEA-DAE0-AFA8BD03856094F1#c77DDB990-FD62-4AC8-CEE357752F5A6060
Very creative writing from Mr.Ashe , I might add.)


Fast forward.
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch decides he will round up 72 of his Congressional pals to sign this letter to .... saying, in essence, let's kill a bunch of those happy wolves.
Rather quirky request from Mr. Hatch, as he lives in Utah, and there are no Gray Wolves in Utah.
So why does this issue concern him?

Somehow, this letter is not seen for the ridiculous speculation that it is.


Mythological, fantastic, and should be taken under consideration of being included in the finest collection of fairy tales.


Let's tie this letter up.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Human's have touched off the world's latest mass extinction, as large predators (wolves) vanish

http://tinyurl.com/k22zbmy

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Wolf eradication causes prey animals to swell in population + throws food chains out of balance

http://tinyurl.com/k22zbmy

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Decline of apex predators (wolves) = Humankind’s most pervasive influence on the natural world.

http://tinyurl.com/k22zbmy

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED State wolf policies are eradicating our apex predators, throwing the food chain out of balance. http://tinyurl.com/k22zbmy

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED State led wolf policies = NOT following sound wildlife science  @DirectorDanAshe  RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crw

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Eradicating wolves by state policy affects  all USA environment @DirectorDanAshe  RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crw

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Allowing current state wolf control = imminent wolf extinction @DirectorDanAshe . RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crw

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED By delisting wolves @DirectorDanAshe we've created the reality of wolf genocide. RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crw

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Wolf recovery is being decimated by state led wolf hunt policy @DirectorDanAshe RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crws

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  2,673 dead Gray wolves = result of "state management partners" @DirectorDanAshe RE-LIST Wolves http://tinyurl.com/oz7crws

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED When ID, WY, MT, MI, MN, + WI delisted  wolves from ESA, state wolf management policy led to 2,673 deaths. RE-LIST Wolves

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Wildlife science proves removing apex predators = devastating environmental effects. RE-LIST all of our wolves! @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED From an ethical perspective, most killing of wolves is morally indefensible + should be stopped http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Until IDFG can consistently use non lethal predator controls http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh Idaho wolves should be RE-LISTED!

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED @USFWSHQ Since ID delisted wolves in 2009, IDFG has "managed" to slaughter 1,783 wolves. RELIST Idaho wolves under E.S.A.!

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED @USFWSHQ Idaho F+G is responsible for 1763 wolf kills of the 2673 wolf hunts in all delisted states. RE-LIST ID under ESA

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED @USFWSHQ Idaho F+G is responsible for  66% of all gray wolves slaughtered since delisting. RE-LIST Idaho wolves under ESA!

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Foundation For Wildlife = Elk hunters funding the bounty wolf trapping co-op. $500 per wolf. http://tinyurl.com/n55x3nh

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG allows"wolf control" via wolf trapping co-op? It's outrageous cruelty NOT wildlife service

http://tinyurl.com/n55x3nh

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Migratory patterns of wolves + elk are affected by wildfires. Science must dictate management.

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Non lethal predator controls save sheep, cattle + wolves. http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh

They work, so why hunt wolves, IDFG?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Flaudry, guard dogs + range riders have been proven to dissuade wolves from killing livestock

http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED 4,000 elk have entered S. Idaho area, threatening ranch livelihoods. Wolves could help there!

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  In 15 years ID elk populations increase in places w/no elk in mid to late 90s. Wolves' fault?

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  While ranchers want elk gone, IDFG officials say it's a delicate situation. Call in a wolf ?

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID ranchers see elk movement into S.W. Idaho as “invasion.” Why hunt wolves who control elk # ?

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG killed wolves to save elk in FCWNR. Yet the elk were overrunning farms in southern Idaho.

http://tinyurl.com/o9kq7pt

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Wildlife = wolves and prey, do not observe hunting unit boundaries or political boundaries IDFG

http://tinyurl.com/puod565

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Individual wildlife species (wolves) do not exist in isolation + can't be managed in isolation.

http://tinyurl.com/puod565

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED The model for wildlife management services deriving its funding from hunters is obsolete, IDFG.

http://tinyurl.com/puod565

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED All of Idaho has a say in state wildlife management + wolf policy . Not JUST ID wolf hunters .

http://tinyurl.com/puod565

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Utilize Non lethal predator controls,  IDFG. http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh

STOP slaughtering wolves to address depredation ! 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED 500 Idaho Gray Wolves don't have to DIE to protect livestock. Non lethal predator control IDFG: http://tinyurl.com/pl2a7qh

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Since wolf hunting became legal in Idaho, 912 wolves were killed. Needlessly. Use Non lethal controls instead, ID F&G !

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG states it plans to use trapping to kill wolves. We are calling for US Trapping Ban. S+S! http://tinyurl.com/kknm4wj

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Gov creates Wolf Control Board to slaughter 500 wolves w/ $2,000,000 from ID taxpayers http://tinyurl.com/ls2yaug

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID wolf kills = Simply subject 2 tools we have today . Sport hunting, trapping & aerial gunning http://tinyurl.com/ls2yaug

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG < STOP wolf hunting. START co-existing with predators, use non-lethal predator controls :

http://tinyurl.com/mjqsvom

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Co-existing with predators would stop this War on Wolves, IDFG. The pro wolf lawsuits would end

http://tinyurl.com/mjqsvom

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Methods of co-existing with predators would NOT require $2,000,000 from ID taxpayers, IDFG.

http://tinyurl.com/mjqsvom

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Gov Otter's 500WolfKill Control Board costs $2,000,000 from ID taxpayers, IDFG. Money wasted

http://tinyurl.com/mjqsvom

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho ranks 50th in amount of money it pays to educate its children. Wolf hunts take priority.

http://tinyurl.com/lqtygvg

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED In 2009, wolf hunting = legal in ID. Gov. Otter announced he wished to shoot first 1

Your state partner @DirectorDanAshe ?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED According to IDFG, Idaho now has around 680 wolves. Gov.Otter's Wolf Control Board only wants 150 of those to survive. 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED When IDFG decimates wolf numbers, CWD in deer will cause a long term depopulation of deer + other wildlife = eco imbalance

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG Comm. Corkhill : "If every wolf in ID disappeared I wouldn’t have a problem with it.”

@DirectorDanAshe < Work 4 you ?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG Commissioner Doerr : "In best interest of Idaho to maintain wolf pops 2 avoid listing w/ ESA"

By killing 500 wolves?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Here's the deal. IDFG Wolf Control will impact environment beyond ID. CWD in deer w/out wolf predation will not STAY in ID

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED When it's been proven that non lethal predator controls = effective to save livestock + wolves, why does IDFG kill wolves?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Gray wolves breed only when prey is plentiful, thus they are self regulating. Wolf hunts will only create prey imbalance.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness encompasses 2,366,757 acres. Its 9 wolves IDFG killed took up too much room?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Wolf trappers "enjoy" a 25% kill rate over wolf hunters. http://tinyurl.com/ovlm639 They "enjoy animal cruelty" ??? 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED " (ID) Wolf trapping is time consuming and expensive." http://tinyurl.com/ovlm639 Seems rather costly for the wolf as well

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED " Wolf traps need checking at least once every 3 days." http://tinyurl.com/ovlm639 . Gives the wolf ample time to suffer.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG does not intend to eliminate wolves from Idaho. Just reduce from 680 to 150. Downsizing?

http://tinyurl.com/ovlm639 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID wolf population in 2009 = 859. ID wolf pop. > 2013 = 683. This is wolf eradication, not wolf recovery. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho F+G wolf management is failing to understand the crucial role of apex predators like wolves. http://goo.gl/ExYOd4

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Gov.Otter’s $2M ID Wolf Control Board AND the Foundation for Wildlife Management/trapping co-op ? = "Idaho Wolf Wipe Out".

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED “Status + Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores,” > No wolves? = Not much of a world. http://goo.gl/ExYOd4

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Scientists expect loss of apex predators /wolves will bring degradation 2 ecosystems. ID F+G <Listen? http://goo.gl/ExYOd4

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID wolf population in 2009 = 859. ID wolf pop. > 2013 = 683. This is wolf eradication, not wolf recovery. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho wolf population in 2009 = 859. ID wolf pop. in 2013 = 683. This is wolf eradication, not wolf recovery. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG allowed elk hunters to influence decision to kill 2 wolf packs in Fed owned Frank Church wilderness. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG allowed elk hunters to influence decision to kill 2 wolf packs in Fed owned Frank Church wilderness. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IDFG allowed elk hunters to influence decision to kill 2 wolf packs in Federally owned Frank Church wilderness. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Judge Lodge ruled state could kill wolves in a protected wilderness area. This violates the Wilderness Act. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Idaho F&G went too far by killing wolves in a FEDERALLY designated wilderness , set aside by FED Gov. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Idaho F&G went too far by killing wolves in a FEDERALLY designated wilderness , set aside by FED Gov. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Idaho F&G went too far by killing wolves in a FEDERALLY designated wilderness , set aside by USA Government @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  U.S. Congress passed  the Wilderness Act in 1964. Idaho trespassed this act, illegally, with wolf hunts in Frank Church.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho alters ecosystem in FCRNRW to create profit for itself +the elk hunting industry. Wolves eat elk. Wolves are killed.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Basis for Idaho wolf extermination project. Wolves prey upon elk and deer. Hunters like to kill elk and deer. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  The illegal wolf hunt actions of Idaho +the USFS are challenged in a suit by Dr. Ralph Maughan http://tinyurl.com/myjunn

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho's large scale removal of native wolves to manipulate elk populations contravenes the mandate of 1964 Wilderness Act.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho's elk hunting outfitting industry should not dictate state led wolf management policy. Wolves are hunted to save elk

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho for Wilderness states they hunt to fight animal activists attempting to thwart them http://www.idahoforwildlife.com/

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED IFW: "Many sportsmen believe that excess predator's + environmentalists should go first!!" http://www.idahoforwildlife.com

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED These are your state "wolf management policy partners" in Idaho ? @DirectorDanAshe http://www.idahoforwildlife.com/partner

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Governments are required to insure that humans don't interfere w/ natural forces which shape life in protected wilderness.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Fish and Game breaks the law, wolves are hunted, and trophic cascade is set into motion. This affects more than ID.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Fish & Game violated The Wilderness Act by sending wolf trapper into the FCWNR to kill 2 wolf packs @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Fish & Game violated The Wilderness Act by sending wolf trapper into the FCWNR to kill 2 wolf packs @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Fish & Game violated The Wilderness Act by sending a wolf trapper into the FCWNR to kill 2 wolf packs @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Allowing elk hunters to influence wolf management in Idaho, violating Federal law is dangerous precedent. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Allowing elk hunters to influence wolf management in Idaho, violating Federal law is dangerous precedent. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Allowing elk hunters to influence wolf management in Idaho, violating Federal law, is a dangerous precedent. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho F&G Commissioner Corkhill > “If every wolf in Idaho disappeared I wouldn’t have a problem with it.” @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho F&G Commissioner Corkhill > “If every wolf in Idaho disappeared I wouldn’t have a problem with it.” @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho F&G Commissioner Corkhill said: “If every wolf in Idaho disappeared I wouldn’t have a problem with it.” @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID F&G changed definition for wolf “breeding pair” from @USFWSHQ delisting agreement of 2009. http://tinyurl.com/lhhx7gu

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED State public records request shows widespread capture & mortality of Non-Target Animals related to Idaho Wolf Trapping 

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED In 2013 Idaho year-end wolf population declined 11% to 683  wolves. Livestock losses, however, increased. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED In 2013 Idaho year-end wolf population declined 11% to 683  wolves. Livestock losses, however, increased. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED In 2013 Idaho year-end wolf population declined 11% to 683  wolves. Livestock losses, however, increased. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Co-exsistence between Idaho wolves,  livestock and ranchers is possible. Stop Idaho wolf hunting ! http://on.fb.me/1dqDPMF

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Gray Wolf recovery was funded w/tax payer $ via all US citizens. Why is ID F&G allowed 2 thwart recovery? @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Gray Wolf recovery was funded w/tax payer $ via all US citizens. Why is ID F&G allowed 2 thwart recovery? @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Gray Wolf recovery was funded w/tax payer $ via all US citizens. Why is ID F&G allowed 2 thwart recovery? @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Non lethal control 4 wolves is highly effective. So elk hunters are the only reason for Idaho wolf hunts. @SecretaryJewell

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Non lethal control 4 wolves is highly effective. So elk hunters are the only reason for Idaho wolf hunts. @DirectorDanAshe

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Non lethal control for wolves is highly effective. So elk hunters are the only reason for Idaho wolf hunting. @USFWSHQ

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Siddoway Sheep Co. Inc, = ID Sen, took $865,952 in AG subsidies 1995 -2006. His wolf kill bill  http://tinyurl.com/8x54q

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  ID F&G : Virgil Moore stressed the F+G doesn’t want 2 eliminate wolves, just manage their numbers. From 658 wolves to 150

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho's wolf eradication will impact ecosystem outside of Idaho state borders .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGEXDlUHD

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED The impact of Wolf eradication on environmental balance is clearly documented > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGEXDlUHD

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho's human predation on wolves will result in trophic cascade, creating an environment that is inhospitable for humans

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Idaho Senator Siddoway violated the Airborne Hunting Act of 1956 http://tinyurl.com/3vmc39e to authorize a wolf killing.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Sen. Siddoway violated the federal Airborne Hunting Act of 1956 http://tinyurl.com/3vmc39e @USFWSHQ, but never cited.

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID F+G : for Dec. 2013. 1 coyote and wolf "derby". 9 wolf kills in Fed protected wilderness.

http://tinyurl.com/p2vfe8d

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Gov. Otter proposes 2 million dollar "Wolf Control Board". Goal ? 685 wolves > 150 wolves .

http://tinyurl.com/m62bp55

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Sen. Siddoway said he hopes the $2M Wolf Control Fund will prevent sheep loss. Like his ? > http://tinyurl.com/kqzgqq8

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Gov.Otter  “..we were able to fight those who would make Idaho into a restricted-use wildlife refuge." FCWNR IS THAT !

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID Gov.Otter "...take back control of these predators (wolves) from our federal landlords.”  FCWNR. The Wilderness Act ?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED “Anything that reduces the (Idaho) wolf population is a good thing,” ID Sen. Siddoway said. http://tinyurl.com/mjmnrah

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED “No one in Idaho could give you an accurate estimate about how many wolves we have" : Siddoway http://tinyurl.com/mjmnrah

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID F&G reports Idaho hunters killed 16,418 elk in 2012 (20% success rate vs tags sold). 202 wolves harvested 2012. @USFWSH

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED Sen.Siddoway says no one in Idaho can actually say how many wolves are there. Where's the science to set hunt quotas then?

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED ID F+G wolf kills: 2010-14. 983 wolves.Yet Siddoway says no 1 knows # of wolves http://tinyurl.com/mjmnrah

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#KEEPWOLVESLISTED  ID F&G wolf hunt stats 2010-11 "Wolf harvest" 270. 2011-12 = 202.2012-13 = 319. 2013-14=192. 983 wolf "harvests" @USFWSHQ

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Fight #Idaho Legislature’s Proposal to Use Dogs as Wolf Bait

http://tinyurl.com/o4cucbf #wolves #animalcruelty

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Stop extreme wolf killing efforts in Idaho that violate federal management policy . http://tinyurl.com/jvt95ql

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED 
Protect Idaho's Wolves From Otter's Cruelty. He wants $2 million to off more Idaho wolves.
http://tinyurl.com/n6a8txx

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Fight Idaho Legislature’s Proposal to Use Dogs as Wolf Bait. ID F+G < HOW can you condone?
http://tinyurl.com/cxbprfx

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED No "Live Bait" Hunting of Wolves in Idaho . WHY do we need a petition for this, Idaho F+G??
http://tinyurl.com/m7t3t3f

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Support maintained Federal protections for Gray Wolves . Stop future Idaho wolf hunts !
http://tinyurl.com/pz4bbsn

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Petitioning Sally Jewell 
Wolves NEED Federal protection . STOP future Idaho wolf hunting!
http://tinyurl.com/d2ho4cn

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Tell Secretary Jewell: Keep Federal Protection for Wolves. 
http://tinyurl.com/lt5cc8t

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Stop the de-listing of wolves from The Endangered Species list. 
http://tinyurl.com/kr22vs

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Keep Gray Wolves under Federal Protection ~ No more wolf hunting like we see now in Idaho !
http://tinyurl.com/lahetur

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Tell Secretary Of The Interior Sally Jewell: Put A Stop To This Wolf Delisting Catastrophe!
http://tinyurl.com/kvmyvqh

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Tell Secretary Jewell > Protect wolves. Future of wolves at stake from Idaho wolf hunting.
http://tinyurl.com/mddmfe

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Protect America's Wolves ~ Gray Wolf recovery is being thwarted by Idaho wolf hunting.
http://tinyurl.com/nxob3nx

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Repeal Rider in Budget act Delisting Wolves from ESA .Protect wolves from future wolf hunts
http://tinyurl.com/n6mklwo

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Tell Obama- Wolves have NOT made a "Full Recovery". Just look at what Idaho F+G is doing.
http://tinyurl.com/m7gls9d

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED RE~LIST WOLVES! Stop ID F+G wolf hunts from ever happening again. Save our wolves in Idaho.
http://tinyurl.com/moktx4h

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Barack Obama ~
Keep Wolves listed as Endangered Species . Don't let Idaho wipe wolves out.
http://tinyurl.com/l9hjnha

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Director Dan Ashe we need you to help maintain Federal Wolf Protections to save our wolves
http://tinyurl.com/lg2b65n

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Keep Wolves Listed as an Endangered Species . The future of wolves is threatened by ID F+G
http://tinyurl.com/klcdk7n

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED  We have FAR More Than 1,700 Wolf Deaths USFWS. Please stop the state led wolf hunting now.
http://tinyurl.com/ora6fw2

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Support Maintained Federal Protections for Gray Wolves . Please stop future wolf hunting.
http://tinyurl.com/pz4bbsn

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED  Stop taking wolves OFF the Endangered Species Act. Relist Gray Wolves once and for all.
http://tinyurl.com/on28g56

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED When Wolves lose Endangered Species Act Protection, we lose Wolves! Save our Gray Wolves.
http://tinyurl.com/pav5uv

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Cancel Plans to De-List Wolves. The future of wolves is endangered by state led management.
http://tinyurl.com/k6kqmyd

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Save Wild Wolves From Hunting! Like the wolf hunts we have seen from ID F+G in the FCWNR.
http://tinyurl.com/mm69xsl

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S+S #KEEPWOLVESLISTED Petitioning President Obama~ Congress REINSTATE Wolves Under Federal Protection PERMANENTLY

http://tinyurl.com/ngrkduj

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Killing a wolf pack’s experienced hunters causes the rest of the pack to prey on easier targets such as livestock #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Conservation minded ranchers are adopting nonlethal tools and techniques for preventing wolf - livestock conflicts ##KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Killing a predator only provides a temporary solution, rarely does it result in a long-term fix #KEEPWOLVESLISTED #wolves

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The top predator is an essential part of the ecosystem, ranchers can be educated to coexist successfully with #wolves #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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#Wildlife officials need to recognize that federal lands belong to all, not just hunters #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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"We need to accept that #wolves are part of natural ecosystems so let’s learn to live with them" C. Niemeyer, wolf expert #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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A viable wolf population controls herd animal numbers better and more economically than any other method #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Exaggerated wolf - livestock interactions have little to do with reality. Domestic dogs kill more cattle than do wolves #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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The conservation of top predators helps to preserve the structure and processes of ecosystems #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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If apex predators are removed, mesopredator populations can force sudden changes in the structure of ecosystems #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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When #wolves were reintroduced to #Yellowstone something interesting happened: it began to find a more healthful balance #KEEPWOLVESLISTED 

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Recovering #wildlife are restoring balance to damaged ecosystems across the country #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Left unexploited by humans, #wolves develop complex societies that are tuned to their precise environment #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Hunting predators violates the North American Model for #wildlife #conservation #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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ID hunters believe they have a right to control land within the state that legally belongs to all the citizens of the US #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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The only commitment Idaho has made to #wolves is find as many ways as possible to kill them and drive down their numbers #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Idaho hired a professional hunter to eliminate entire wolf packs in wilderness areas far away from livestock and humans #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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Predators play a vital role in wildlife population dynamics. The number of predators depends on the prey population #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” - Gandhi #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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"Exterminating #wolves is so 19th century" -@Defenders of Wildlife #KEEPWOLVESLISTED

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