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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Friday, April 26, 2013

We all better be doing more than just walking if we hope to prevent federal delisting of Wolves across the USA............So flys in the face of the intent of the Endangered Species Act for the USFW Service to make the "science-less" statement that because there are wolves on the ground in some of the Rocky Mtn and Great Lakes States there is now no need to establish Wolf populations in the suitable habitat regions of the Appalachians up and down the eastern seaboard...................So very disappointing this Obama Administration has been as it relates to open space and biodiversity..................Arguably worse than the Bush and Reagan years





Rewilding Institute News

Link to The Rewilding Institute


Posted: 25 Apr 2013 06:47 PM PDT
gray wolf
gray wolf (Photo: USFWS – Midwest Region)
Walk for Wolves has been organized to raise awareness about the threats
 affecting the
 wolf population throughout the United States. In addition to losing their
 habitat, the most
 detrimental threats come from government bills allowing hunting and
 trapping an 
indiscriminate number of wolves by methods such as shooting, trapping
 and snaring where
 the latter two are considered inhumane. Illegal hunting and trapping has
 also caused a high 
mortality in wolves and hatred driven wolf groups have been known to use
 brutal killing methods
 such as shooting wolves in the abdomen (gut-shot) and poisoning to name
 a few.
The masses need to know, our government needs to listen so we can 
proactively change current
 legislations and offer protection to these species. Coexisting through 
adaption is the key to success in this matter. Join us as an organizer or 
as a participant and howl with us Saturday, April 27th in a 3-mile walk
 near your city.
Below is a list of days and locations for Walks for Wolves that
 are taking place around 
the country this weekend:
State
City
Walk Location
Walk Date
1
Arizona
Phoenix
City Hall to Downtown
Saturday April 27
2
California
Long Beach
Shoreline
Saturday April 27
3
California
Sacramento
Capitol State Building
Saturday April 27
4
California
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Saturday April 27
5
Colorado
Denver
West steps of the CO
Capitol
 Building
Saturday April 27
Friday April 26
6
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Chapel Hills Mall
Saturday April 27
7
DC
Washington
US Capitol Building
Saturday April 27
8
Florida
Bushnell
Dade Battlefield Park
Saturday April 27
9
Idaho
Boise
Boise Capitol Building
Saturday April 27
10
Idaho
Coeur D'Alene
Kootenai Courthouse to
Downtown
Saturday April 27
11
Indiana
Indianapolis
White River State Park
Saturday April 27
12
Kentucky
Louisville
Jefferson Square Park to
 Downtown Louisville
Friday April 26
13
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Grand Valley State
University to Ah-Nab-Awen Park
Saturday April 27
14
Michigan
Lansing
Capitol State Building
Friday April 26
15
Montana
Great Falls
Elks Riverside Park
Saturday April 27
16
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Tower Pond Park
Saturday April 27
17
New York
Auburn
Hoopes Park Track
Saturday April 27
18
New York
New York
Union Square to City Hall
Saturday April 27
19
North Carolina
Murphy
Konehete Park to Downtown
Saturday April 27
20
Ohio
Cleveland
Public Square Quadrants
Saturday April 27
21
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Downtown – Penn Square &
; Central Market
Saturday April 27
22
Texas
Austin
Texas Capitol Building
Saturday April 27
23
Texas
Dallas
City Hall to Downtown
Saturday April 27
24
Utah
Salt Lake City
Capitol State Building
Saturday April 27
25
Washington
Seattle
Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
 to Olympic Sculpture Park
Saturday April 27
26
Washington
Spokane
Manito Park to Downtown
Saturday April 27
Please contact Carmen C. Long with your questions:
Facebook: Protecting Yellowstone Wolves
Email: walkforwolves@gmail.com 
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Draft Rule Ends Protections for

 Gray Wolves

;abcnews.com




Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections
 for gray wolves
 across
 the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long
 recovery effort
 that has 
restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range.

The draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The 
Associated Press 
contends
 that roughly 5,000 wolves now living in the Northern Rockies
 and Great Lakes
 are
 enough to prevent the species' extinction. The agency says
 having gray wolves 
elsewhere — such as the West Coast, parts of New England 
and the Southern
 Rockies
 — is unnecessary for their long-term survival.
A small population of Mexican wolves in the Southwest would
 continue to receive
 federa
l protections, as a distinct subspecies of the gray wolf.
The document was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday the rule was under
 internal review
 and 
would be subject to public comment before a final decision is made.












If the rule is enacted, it would transfer control of wolves to
 state wildlife agencies
 by 
removing them from the federal list of endangered species.
Wildlife advocates warn that could effectively halt the species
' expansion, which
 has 
stirred a backlash from agricultural groups and some hunters
 upset by wolf attacks
 on
 livestock and big game herds such as elk.
Some biologists have argued wolves will continue spreading 
regardless of their legal 
status. The animals are prolific breeders, known to journey 
hundreds of miles in
 search 
of new territory. They were wiped out across most of the U.S.
 early last century
 following
 a government sponsored poisoning and trapping campaign.
In an emailed statement, the agency pointed to "robust" populations
 of the animals in
 the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes as evidence that gray wolf
 recovery "is one of
 the
 world's great conservation successes."
Wolves in those two areas lost protections under the Endangered 
Species Act over the 
last two years.
In some states where wolves have recovered, regulated hunting 
and trapping already
 has been used to drive down their populations, largely in response 
to wolf attacks on 
livestock and big game herds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
recently reported that
 wolf numbers dropped significantly last year in Wyoming, Idaho
and Montana for the
 first time since they were reintroduced in the mid-1990s.
Federal officials have said they are monitoring the states' actions, 
but see no immediate
 threat to their survival.

In Oregon and Washington, which have small but rapidly growing
 wolf populations, the 
animals have remained protected under state laws even after
 federal protections were 
lifted in portions of the two states.
Between 1991 and 2011, the federal government spent $102
 million on gray wolf 
recovery programs and state agencies chipped in $15.6 million.
 Federal spending likely
 would drop if the proposal to lift protections goes through,
 while state spending would
 increase.
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