Got this email this afternoon From BIG GAME FOREVER
Radical new plans to force unmanaged wolf populations across America were released last week. Here is a map of the next phase of these wolf proliferation plans:
US Wolf Map
Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-a-blueprint-for-continued-wolf-restoration-and-recovery-in-the-lower-48-states.pdf See below for maps illustrating how these plans will impact your states.
What Big Game Forever is Doing to Protect Wild Game
As you are aware, Big Game Forever is working diligently to protect America’s wildlife populations and the rights of sportsmen. Tonight on Outdoor Channel, Shawn Michaels MacMillan River Adventures will take you to the halls of Congress with Big Game Forever. You can see what our nation’s leaders are doing to ensure state’s have management authority over wolves.
What: Shawn Michaels MacMillan River Adventures
Where: Outdoor Channel
When: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013; 9:30 pm Mountain Time/11:30 pm Eastern Time
Here is what we need to understand: Extreme animal rights activists see unmanaged wolves as a means to a broader agenda. What is this broader agenda? Not only decreasing opportunity for sportsmen, but closing of public land hunting units, ending public land grazing and ultimately the “re-wildling” of America. Our goal is simple: we want to protect wild game, our outdoor heritage and the right of states to address concerns when they arise.
Here is a quote that illustrates the agenda, “Change the policies and practices …[to] eliminate their participation in killing wolves to artificially boost game populations.”
How will this affect wildlife and hunting in your state?
Southern Rockies (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico):
Southern Rockies Map
Source:http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-southern-rockies-defenders.pdf
Quote: “ Colorado is home to 300,000 elk and some of the best remaining wolf habitat in the entire country. The Uinta Mountains of Utah and parts of northern Arizona and New Mexico provide key linkages to other wolf populations...” Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-southern-rockies-defenders.pdfQuote: "efforts...to re-establish wolf populations in suitable Southern Rockies Habitat in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah...There are two ways this can happen: the release of wolves from other areas...” Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-southern-rockies-defenders.pdf Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, S. Utah, S. Colorado):
Southwest
Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-southwest-defenders.pdfQuote: “the Grand Canyon ecoregion is one of the best places for wolves in the lower 48 states (Sneed 2001; Carroll et al. 2003; Carroll et al. 2006). Wolves dispersing from the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area could reach the canyon region, but relocations of wolves would greatly accelerate expansion into the area…Other promising recovery sites include northern New Mexico and southern Colorado and Utah. Additional areas, in west Texas…”
Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-southwest-defenders.pdf Pacific Northwest (California, Nevada, Washington State, Oregon):
Pacific Northwest Map
Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-pacific-northwest-defenders.pdfQuote: “Possible sites with good wolf habitat include the coastal Olympic Range in northwestern Washington, the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California, the northern Sierra Nevada in eastern California” Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-pacific-northwest-defenders.pdf. Northeast (Maine, New York, New England):
See Map:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-northeast.pdfQuote: “…Several studies indicate that suitable habitat and sufficient prey exist for wolves in the swath of New England extending from northern and central Maine across northern New Hampshire and Vermont to Adirondack Park in northeastern New York…” Source:
http://www.defenders.org/publications/places-for-wolves-northeast.pdf How these plans extend beyond wolf expansion:
(1) The aggressive wolf expansion plans now include the Southern Rockies (Colorado, Utah) , Pacific Northwest (Washington State, Oregon, California), The Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), and Northeast (Maine, New York, New England).
(2) The stated goal is to decrease wild game populations
(3) They hope to stop professional wolf control activities.
(4) They advocate for wolf transplants.
(5) No state management to protect wildlife using federal mandates.
(6) They want to repeat the impacts to wildlife experienced in the Northern Rockies.
Reminder:
Tonight on Outdoor Channel, Shawn Michaels MacMillan River Adventures will take you to the halls of Congress with Big Game Forever, to show you what we are doing to protect wild game populations and the rights of hunters.
What: Shawn Michaels MacMillan River Adventures
Where: Outdoor Channel
When: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013; 9:30 pm Mountain Time/11:30 pm Eastern Time
Thank you for your ongoing support on this important issue.
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Ryan Benson
http://biggameforever.org/ryandbenson@msn.com
