Just this week in Wisconsin a hound hunter ran his dog through a wolf rendezvous site, and two gray wolves killed his dog. He went into the area looking for his dog and witnessed two timber wolves holding onto the dead dog. He not only disturbed wolf pups, causing the death of his dog; he …
The Trump administration is making drastic changes to how the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is applied.
Ecosystem Services: Think of bees that pollinate more than 90 commercial crops in the U.S. That's the beauty, or bounty, that the Endangered Species Act provides. The ESA ensures these beneficial ecosystems just don't unravel. You see the Endangered Species Act doesn't just protect the individual species, it also protects the lands, or habitats, the …
Michigan Men Confessed to Killing Gray Wolves…
DNR officials caught the men responsible for two separate Upper Peninsula wolf poaching incidents in a span of 24 hours. A 58-year-old from Greenland Township and a 67-year-old from Menominee Township, both confessed to the crimes in Ontonagon and Menominee counties, respectively, on Tuesday. Their names are being withheld pending their arraignments in the respective …
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Lawsuit argues that wolves must remain federally protected until the Fish and Wildlife Service implements a national recovery plan.
“We won’t let the Trump administration bring wolf recovery to a screeching halt to benefit the blood sport of trophy hunting,” said Collette Adkins, a Minneapolis-based Center biologist and attorney. “If successful, our lawsuit would require the feds to recover wolves nationwide and block their efforts to prematurely remove protection.” Lawsuit Fights Trump Administration Effort …
US Rep Sean Duffy (R-WI) Proposes Removing Endangered Species Act Protection for Gray Wolves in the Lower 48 States…
...Duffy wants management returned to the states and court challenges of management plans would not be allowed under his proposal. Duffy proposes removing wolves from Endangered Species Act Law would eliminate possible court challenges by Rick Olivo Ashland Daily Press rolivo@ashlanddailypress.net U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy again is trying to kill Endangered Species Act protection for …
Politicians have no Idea of the Gray Wolf’s Intrinsic Value to the Land…
... the party in power only values economic growth, and caters to special interests where the big money is concerned. In the featured photograph is a young gray wolf that was one of the last to die in Wisconsin's wolf hunts that took for three years from 2012 to 2014. This young Gray wolf was …
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There’s No Price Tag on Our Mother Earth…
...Get involved. Protect the earth from unscrupulous land grabbers. In the early 1990s I met activists John Trudell, Floyd Crow Westermman and Walter Bresette at a Protect the Earth Pow Wow held on the Lac Court Oreilles reservation in northern Wisconsin. Back then it was about Native Spearfishing exercising rights off the reservation and Sulfate …
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Vehicle Collisions and Illegal kills Were the Leading Causes of Death for Wisconsin’s Gray Wolf
The Wisconsin Gray Wolf Monitoring Report describes wolf management and monitoring activities conducted in Wisconsin during the wolf monitoring year, April 15th, 2017 to April 14th, 2018. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) reverted to federally endangered status in the Western Great Lakes region as the result of a federal court decision in December 2014. They have …
#GetInvolved: A Campaign to Show Support for America’s Endangered Species Act
In the Senate there's Legislation being proposed that would rewrite the Endanered Species Act. Under Barrasso’s proposal, individual states would be given key authority over the federal program to conserve threatened and endangered species. The Endangered Species Act, passed by Congress four decades ago, is the nation’s safety net for fish, plants ,and wildlife on …
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The Latest News on Senate Republican’s Bid to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act
The Hill reported on Tuesday that more than 100 Dems oppose GOP efforts to change endangered species law More than 100 Democratic lawmakers are pushing back against Republican efforts to include provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that would weaken certain endangered species protections. On Tuesday, 119 House Democrats sent a letter to various lawmakers in …
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