Help stop the Mexican wolf slaughter!

The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo - the diminutive border wolf identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1986 as the most endangered mammal in North America - is being trapped and shot into oblivion by the Bush administration.

Reintroduced into the wilds of New Mexico and Arizona in 1998 after being exterminated from the Southwest by the early 1930s, the Mexican wolf was projected to reach 102 animals in 18 breeding pairs by the end of this year.

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The Nantac pair were both involved in livestock depredations in 2005 and were removed from the San Carlos indian reservation for those kills as well as the tribes request that no wolves be allowed on the reservation.
In the 6 weeks they were in the wild they centered on a small cow calf operation and went to killing cow calf pairs. They would kill a calf and eat it up then kill the cow and consume her milk laden udder leaving the rest behind. They averaged a pair every two days. This far exceeded the maximum damage an average New Mexico rancher can withstand and stay in business but you won't hear the truth from the wolf activists. Nor does the agency really tell the media the facts their policy is every kill in a 24 hour period is one depredation. As if this makes better behavior rather than more destructive behavior. Multiple kills in a 24 hour period were this packs specialty, this is what is known as a surpluss killing spree.

This particular rancher is a mom with a 5 year old in tow working her cows by herself most of the time. Another thing you won't hear from the activists. The agency has plenty of wolves in captivity and plenty of wildborn wolves not yet convicted of livestock depredation that should be counted and used for the program but FWS and the activists seem to prefer inflicting maximum damage on the livestock families of southeast AZ and Southwest NM.

The Mexican Gray Wolf Program with its seemingly many setbacks, is now staged to really take off. After eight years, enough wild born wolves have increased the wolf population in the two state recovery area to many more than either the USFWS or Michael Robinson of the Biological Diversity Center are willing to admit and are lying about on a daily basis, in order for the FWS to keep translocating problem wolves into the Gila in New Mexico and absolutely devaste several ranchers livestock and livlihoods. This is by design to get rid of the ranchers first and foremost. The hunters are next. Their ox hasn't been gored yet and you hear very little of what is actually happening to our elk and deer herds in the two state area. The wolves are already having a tremendous impact on wildlife habits and normal movement patterns as well as starting to take a heavy toll on the wildlife numbers. The stage is set! The wolf numbers are set to explode and already the NMGFD is proposing to cut elk licenses for the next two years in the Gila Wilderness and Aldo Leopold Wilderness by 43%, as well as a huge cut two years ago in rifle elk tags. This is by design, may of us feel, in order for the Gila Wilderness to once and for all, become the Primary Recovery Zone. With one half as many hunters in the area the next two years, it is making NM Game Management unit 16B, which includes Most of the Gila Wilderness and most of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness, a wolf sanctuary. I operate from April through November in these Wilderness areas, spending up to 8 weeks in a sleeping bag there and have been in this area for over 30 years and have a keen sense of how the wildlife are doing there. I have never seen wolf trails until May of this year in the Lillly Park/Lilly Spring area. Actual wolf trails coming into water with fresh tracks in them. Becky Campbell who operates on the south end of the Gila Wilderness found 12 wolf killed elk in Woodland Park last fall, 2005, and even witnessed wolves running a calf elk into the stock/dirt tank, killing it right before their eyes. Wolves had completely run the elk out of unit 22 in the high country on the western side of the Gila Wilderness last rifle elk season. My guides saw no elk tracks what-so-ever, only alot of big wolf tracks. We have beeen witnessing the elk in the Gila Wilderness no longer use the meadows very much and are pushed into the deep, dark timber in order to survive Folks, take my word, hiunting and livestock raising in and around these areas is just about over! A good friend of mine who has outfitted for 33 years near Jackson Hole, WY, where the Canadian wolves have devastated the elk herds, told me this spring, "Tom, it is over! You will be out of the elk hunting business very soon!" Many of my friends who were outfitters in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are mostly out of the elk hunting business because of the wolves. Michael Robinson never talks about the devastation of the ungulate species (deer and elk) that these ever increasing, ready to explode wolf populations are staged to do to us. Wake up America! The Green Movement wants total control of the natural resouce lands with no consumptive users there. These people are ruthless and have alot of public sympathy and support and alot of money behing them, with the Turner Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, Rockafeller, Ford and etc. and etc. funding them to the hilt. The small business owners in the area as well as the outiftters, ranchers and hunters haven't even seen anything yet. Hold on to your seat buddy because the wolves are here, and here to stay, and they are alive, well and healthy!! Tom Klumker San Francisco River Outfitters Glenwood, NM

What people should be asking is WHY is the Mexican grey wolf being released? These animals are dangerous. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife is doing a lousy job of keeping track of them. Citizens that live near the wolves or visit National Forests are in grave danger with the wolves out there. These wolves aren't afraid of humans.
I have been to Gila National Forest which is a killing ground for the wolves. They are destroying all other types of wildlife out there. They are even denned up in a public campground (Summer of 2005). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife did not even post signs to warn people. How easy would it have been for a child to wonder over to see the "puppies" and end up mauled and dead!!
Wake up folks these wolves are not going to make anyones life have greater meaning.
Please stop the RELEASE of the Mexican grey wolf.