Minnesota state capital Archives

KEEP THE PACK INTACT: WOLF DAY 2017

When: Wednesday, March 22, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (doors open 9:30 AM)

Noon Rally in Rotunda (lets fill it with wolf howls too!)
Where: Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul, MN, Basement room and Rotunda
Wolf Day 2017 is in the newly-renovated Capitol Building.

Volunteers are needed before and on Wolf Day. Write us at volunteer@howlingforwolves.org to help.
Click here to: RSVP TODAY to advocate and stand up for the wolf!
Get a free specially designed T-shirt in 100% organic cotton

Come stand for the wolf, join other wolf advocates and tell your lawmaker to protect the wolf. Minnesota’s and the Great Lakes wolves need us to advocate and speak for them with Minnesota state lawmakers in St. Paul. The wolf may soon lose federal protections and the drum beat for wolf hunting that uses cruel methods will begin again. This 2017 legislative session we intend to introduce bills that include but are not limited to supporting nonlethal wolf livestock conflict prevention methods and eliminating all wildlife snaring. This is the first year of the two year session. As a Constituent, you are vital to persuade lawmakers to protect the wolf. The wolf needs us to speak for her and her pack.
Please accept our new shirt designed just for this day. While we know some people may not want a new shirt, we ask that everyone wear a wolf shirt (older ones too) to let lawmakers know we are there for the wolf. We will have a bus from Duluth and encourage people to relax for the trip and take the bus.
Volunteers are needed before and on Wolf Day. We need people to help with set up and take down and distributing materials and others willing to stand in places throughout the office buildings to be seen and to direct people.

Click HERE for more information about Wolf Day.
Click HERE to download and share the Keep the pack intact poster.

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On Wednesday March 23, 2016 over 200 Minnesotans braved the spring snowstorm to converge on the capital for ‘Wolf Day 2016’ sponsored by the Minnesota based wolf advocacy organization Howling For Wolves. In a press release Howling For Wolves announced its 2016 Legislative Priorities during ‘Wolf Day 2016’.

Legislative priorities include removing the automatic wolf trophy hunt from Minnesota law, advancing commonsense trapping reforms, and supporting state and federal funding for nonlethal methods to prevent wolf-livestock conflicts
(St. Paul, Minn) – Howling For Wolves, a Minnesota-based wolf-advocacy organization, held their “Wolf Day 2016” at the Minnesota State Capitol, where over 200 wolf activists met with their specific state legislators. Howling For Wolves announced their 2016 legislative agenda, which supports effective, science-based, and nonlethal wolf plans to support the gray wolf population into the future so that communities and wolves may co-exist. www.howlingforwolves.org

The Howling For Wolves 2016 legislative agenda is to:

• Remove the automatic wolf trophy hunt from Minnesota law. (Despite current federal protections under the Endangered Species Act, Minnesota’s recreational wolf hunting and trapping season remains in state law and would automatically go into effect the moment federal protections are lifted.)

• Advance commonsense trapping reforms by eliminating snaring and requiring written permission to trap on private property.

• Support state and federal funding for nonlethal and effective methods for farmers/ranchers to prevent wolf-livestock conflicts.
Howling For Wolves is a Minnesota-based wolf advocacy organization working to educate the public and policy-makers about wolves, to foster understanding and tolerance, and to ensure their long-term survival in the wild. HFW supports effective, science-based, and nonlethal wolf plans to support and promote human and gray wolf coexistence into the future. Howling a For Wolves press release www.howlingforwolves.org