URGENT-Tell your Senator to protect wolves

The U.S. Senate is considering a must-pass funding bill containing language that would end federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for still-recovering wolves throughout Montana and Idaho and parts of Utah, Oregon and Washington.

If passed, this law will deny a single species from receiving ESA protections for the first time in our nation's history.  The disastrous precedent set by this bill would make it much more likely that the another species will find itself stripped of protections for political expedience.  Our nation owes wolves, a species we brutally drove to near extinction, the same protections afforded any other--no more, and no less. Tell your Senators to fix this bill.

Incredibly, this bill would prevent future re-listing of northern Rockies gray wolves as endangered, no matter how few remain.  Several states have indicated their intention to enact policies that would drastically reduce wolf populations, greatly threatening their remarkable comeback--this unprecedented bill would allow for no recourse should wolves once again vanish from our landscape.

Please call your Senators today and urge them to vote no on HR 1 and pass a clean Senate CR bill.