While I believe in balancing our budget and not spending more than we make...........I cannot lineup down Party lines with the majority of House Republicans in D.C.who are just plain OUT OF TOUCH, IN DENIAL AND IGNORANT AS IT RELATES TO HOW WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE PRESERVATION ARE PART AND PARCEL OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE POSITION..........IF WE ARE WILLING TO GO TO WAR ON THE 1% CHANCE THAT ANOTHER COUNTRY HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, THEN WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO MAKE THE INVESTMENT TO KEEP OUR NEST HEALTHY AND CLEAN AND BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE..........HOW CAN YOU BE FOR "RIGHT TO LIFE" WHEN YOU ARE SO QUICK TO VOTE FOR WOLVES, COUGARS BEARS AND OTHER OF NATURES CREATION TO BE SHOT, TRAPPED AND POISONED TO WHERE ONLY REMNANT POPULATIONS OF THESE KEYSTONE ANIMALS EXIST?

Republican Budget to Wolves: Drop Dead

Last night the Republican controlled House Rules Committee released a "continuing resolution" to fund the federal government past March.  As I thought, the bill contains cuts to funding for endangered species (for those of you following at home, see section 1704).  But it goes far beyond that.

The Committee has decreed, without a hearing and in defiance of the best and most up-to-date science, that wolves will lose all of their Endangered Species Act protection in Idaho, Montana, and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Utah (section 1713). The bill reinstates a plan that would legally allow states to kill all but 300 wolves in the Northern Rockies, a number that is not sufficient to sustain wolves over the long term. More than 1,700 wolves now roam the Northern Rockies.  That means those who support this provision are content to see as much as 82% of the population wiped out.

 

How is this possibly related to the budget of the United States of America?  When the Republican Party swept to power last November the repeatedly promised a new day--a day in which, among other things, budget bills would no longer contain extraneous policy provisions inserted to avoid the normal legislative process.  In their words: "We will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with 'must-pass' legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time." It looks like that new day doesn't include wolves.

We need to fight this provision.  Stand up and be counted here.
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Stop the Congressional Attack on Endangered Wolves
Wolves in Yellowstone and across the United States are facing a grave new threat -- this time from Capitol Hill. Urge your lawmakers to oppose any legislative attempt -- including a must-pass spending bill -- to strip wolves of their endangered species protection, leaving them at the mercy of states that plan to slaughter hundreds of them. Tell your elected officials that managing our endangered species should be based on sound science, not political calculation.
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Please sign this petition immediately and let these legislators know they are not going to get away with stripping gray wolves out of the ESA and allowing the slaughter of 82% of wolves in the Northern Rockies!!
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