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Friday, November 30, 2007
Tonight: ABQ Public Meeting & Rally for Wild Wolves
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You are urged to attend the public meeting being held tonight by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in Albuquerque to gather public input on the future of the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program. Also, you may have heard that an order was issued yesterday by the FWS to remove the Aspen Pack for conflict with cattle. Federal officials are already scouring the Gila Forest to find these wolves -- and if they can't quickly and easily trap them, they will likely shoot them. With fewer than 60 wolves in the wild and 15 wolves already removed for cattle depredations this year alone, plus 5 that have either been poached or have gone suspiciously missing, this order is unacceptable.
Join conservation groups for a rally to save the Aspen Pack at 6:00 PM in the Silver Room at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. This is being held in conjunction with the public meeting.
WHAT: Rally to Save the Aspen Pack, and public meeting on the Mexican wolf reintroduction program
WHEN: Meeting is from 5:00 to 9:00 PM, come and go as you please. Rally will take place at 6:00 PM.
WHERE: Silver Room, just inside the main building of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. 2401 12th St. Near Menaul.
Hope to see you there!
Lisa Hummon
New Mexico Outreach Representative
Defenders of Wildlife
824 Gold SW Albuquerque, NM 87108
Tel: (505) 248-0118 x5 | Fax: (505) 248-0187
lhummon@defenders.org | www.defenders.org
Editor's Note: If you are unable to attend but want your voice heard: Please submit written comments. Deadline is December 31, 2007. Be sure to include "Attn: Mexican Gray Wolf NEPA Scoping," your full name and your return address in your message.
Send comments to:
Brian Millsap, State Administrator
US Fish and Wildlife Service
New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office
2105 Osuna NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113
fax: 505-346-2542
email: r2fwe_al@fws.gov
online: www.mexicanwolfeis.org
November 30, 2007 at 12:32 PM in Environment | Permalink
Comments
The Aspen pack are displaying uncontrolable behavior that will ruin other wildborn wolves on the ranch where they are localized. While we all feel badly about the necessity of removing any wolf, please do not believe the propaganda pushed by Defenders of wildlife. They will not tell the public the truth about this program. For video of aspen pack kind of cute if they weren't so bad, and their unmitigated behavior not so cute, please see www.wolfcrossing.org
The ranch has several uncollared wolves that will still be out in the wild if Aspen hasn't taught them to kill livestock yet. The kills are out of the recovery area on DEEDED land. Even if they were not, it is irrisponsible for anyone to promote wanton destruction of livestock belonging to another as Defenders appears to be doing.
We are up to 11 head this year so far and that is only those large enough to confirm. The last 5 were killed in about one week.
Posted by: jane | Dec 1, 2007 1:33:44 PM
