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Dear Friend,

Right now, Yellowstone's wild free-roaming buffalo are being rounded up in cattle trucks and shipped to slaughterhouses.

More than 1,000 wild bison have already been killed this winter and more will die each week unless we speak out to stop the slaughter now.

Please register your opposition by sending a message to the director of the National Park Service at: http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/Act_Now_To_Protect_Buffalo

What makes this sacrifice so senseless is that it's all to protect 12 to 16 domestic cows and steer that graze near the park from the theoretical risk of disease that has never been transmitted from bison to cattle in a natural setting.

Yes, you read those numbers right: 1,000 wild bison slaughtered to protect a little more than a dozen cows outside the park that have most likely been vaccinated against the disease, or easily could be.

We cannot stand by and let this government-sponsored massacre continue. As America's last, free-roaming herd, Yellowstone's buffalo are a national treasure. I'm sure you agree that the National Park Service should be their guardian, not their executioner.

Please join me in speaking out to spare the lives of Yellowstone's surviving buffalo so that they can again roam wild and free.

Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund

I can't fucking believe these assholes. Please read this message from the NRDC and go here to take action. You don't have to give money, but with just a few clicks you can make your voice heard.

The Bush Administration has just handed down its long-awaited "License to Kill" rule. It's the equivalent of a death sentence for hundreds of endangered gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone and across the Northern Rockies. We can still force the White House to call off the guns -- before any shots are fired -- but we must move quickly.

All we need is your help.

Millions of Americans have no idea that the Bush Administration is planning to spend our tax dollars to slaughter hundreds of wolves -- while they are still protected under the Endangered Species Act!

But with your help, millions of Americans will know within a matter of days.And thousands of them will go online and urge their members of Congress to unite in opposition to this outrageous attack on an endangered species. At the very same time, our partner organization -- the Natural Resources Defense Council – will be challenging the Bush Administration's cold-blooded plan in federal court. Together, we can block the slaughter -- before it starts -- but only if we act swiftly.

Planes and helicopters, capable of killing entire packs of wolves in seconds, are waiting for the Open Fire order that could come at any time. So please, read the full ad right now and make an emergency online contribution. Help us give America's wolves a fighting chance.

Thank you.
Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund

A message from the Wolf, with special thanks to greygirlbeast for the alert and commentary (not in italics):

This from National Resources Defense Council:

The gray wolf's extraordinary comeback from extinction in Greater Yellowstone is one of America's greatest environmental success stories. But the Bush Administration is now pushing a proposal that would authorize the killing of some 700 wolves — more than half of the current population in the northern Rockies. Speak out now for wolf protection and help shield the wolves of Wyoming and Idaho from the coming crossfire.

We must stop the Bush Administration's plan to declare open season on the wolves of Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho. Once approved, Wyoming and Idaho intend to begin exterminating up to half their gray wolves — by aerial gunning and other cruel methods — as early as this fall.

Submit your Official Citizen Comment, opposing this disastrous plan, before August 6.

Is it even necessary to justify an objection to this crazy, sick shit? Please, take a moment to read and sign the comment that's being sent Ed Bangs, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator. You may find it here.

The statement is as follows:

I strongly oppose your recent wolf management proposal — the 10J rule — that would give states a license to kill wolves in areas where big game populations are below objective, possibly leading to the extermination of up to 700 wolves in Wyoming and Idaho combined. This would reverse the welcome gains in recovery of this magnificent species in the Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho regions.

I am especially outraged that your proposal would empower states to begin slaughtering wolves as early as this fall — even before wolves are taken off the Endangered Species list. It is scandalous that you are circumventing your agency's own process for delisting a species.

Wolves once thrived in much of the lower 48 states. Today, they reside in only five percent of their former range. If there is one place in this country where they should be allowed to flourish, it is in and around Yellowstone — our nation's oldest park — and the remote Selway Bitterroot ecosystem in central Idaho.

I urge you not to decimate a wolf population that has only recently sprung back to life and is world-renowned as a symbol of the American West.

I call on you to withdraw your proposal to allow the massive killing of wolves in the northern Rockies.

Please. And thank you.