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Title: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: WonkyWapiti on July 08, 2013, 07:42:13 PM: Robby Denning posted this on Rokslide but I thought it was important to add here as well.

Please comment on wolves delisting.

According to Boone & Crockett newsletter, the antis are beating us up in the delisting process:

Wolf Advocates Are More Proactive Than Hunters? Can This Be?

Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hasting released a statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to delist the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Part of the process involves public comment on the issue. So far there have been over 13,000 comments left on the regulations.gov website with the overwhelming majority of them against de-listing.

LET YOURSELVES BE HEARD!

Deadline is September 11.

Leave Your Comments!

Here is the link. It was easy, please do it unless you want the Feds to manage wolves instead of the states.
http://www.regulations.gov/?utm_sour...Q-ES-2013-0073 (http://www.regulations.gov/?utm_sour...Q-ES-2013-0073)
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: bearpaw on July 08, 2013, 08:00:03 PM: thanks, my comments are entered.... :tup:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: mkcj on July 08, 2013, 08:31:15 PM: Done! :tup:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 08, 2013, 09:13:07 PM: Done ..WOW ..not much being said from the hunting community :dunno: :bash: we need to get this out there ...Post it everywhere you can think of ...some of those comments were just ticking me off ...idiots ..but I guess they have their rights to do so :bash: :bash: :bash: :stup:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Bean Counter on July 08, 2013, 09:28:33 PM: Done 8)
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: JLS on July 08, 2013, 10:01:36 PM: Done.
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: lokidog on July 08, 2013, 10:39:06 PM: "Wolf Advocates Are More Proactive Than Hunters? Can This Be?"

Most of them don't have jobs?? :chuckle:

Comment sent.
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Vandal44 on July 11, 2013, 05:32:56 AM: I just put in my 2 cents,
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Special T on July 11, 2013, 11:18:03 AM: I really dislike the Feds "Cake and Eat it too" actions involving these wolves. When it is political expediant the "Wolf is a wolf" is used as a justificaiton, yet when they want to pander and play politics they pull out the sub species argument. They have no credibility with me. :twocents:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: brianb231 on July 11, 2013, 11:35:29 AM: Done :tup:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Kazekurt on July 11, 2013, 11:42:09 AM: Done! I passed the link on to friends as well.
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Carp Commander on July 11, 2013, 12:13:26 PM: Done :tup:

Holly carp are we the minority! 3 pages of comments and I had still not seen one in support of de-listing!
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: bonkellekter on July 11, 2013, 12:52:35 PM: Comments added.... I went through 30 pages of comments and only saw 2 in support of the proposal???? Have any of you followed up to see if your comments were actually posted?

I will be forwarding this to as many hunters as possible... hope you all plan to do the same!!
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: brianb231 on July 11, 2013, 01:05:53 PM: Quote from: bonkellekter on July 11, 2013, 12:52:35 PM
Comments added.... I went through 30 pages of comments and only saw 2 in support of the proposal???? Have any of you followed up to see if your comments were actually posted?

I will be forwarding this to as many hunters as possible... hope you all plan to do the same!!

It says that it can take weeks for comments to be posted publicly.????? :dunno:
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: VarmintVentilator on July 11, 2013, 01:58:15 PM: Thanks for the info, comments entered.
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: saylean on July 12, 2013, 09:20:24 AM: Forwarded and comment entered...we ALL need to give our input.
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: bonkellekter on July 12, 2013, 10:13:42 AM: Quote from: brianb231 on July 11, 2013, 01:05:53 PM
Quote from: bonkellekter on July 11, 2013, 12:52:35 PM
Comments added.... I went through 30 pages of comments and only saw 2 in support of the proposal???? Have any of you followed up to see if your comments were actually posted?

I will be forwarding this to as many hunters as possible... hope you all plan to do the same!!

It says that it can take weeks for comments to be posted publicly.????? :dunno:

Ya... I saw that too?? That's what made me curious, I plan to track my comment to ensure it actually gets posted!! I guess I just don't trust our guberment!!
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: Easy-E on July 12, 2013, 01:42:00 PM: As somebody who's actually worked in federal government regulatory space (I won't go into that) I would encourage as many people as possible to weigh in on this. What happens is the Fed's will compile all of the comments received and group similar comments into bins. These get reported as "joint comments". In other words, they will report a "joint comment" with the number of respondents for those opposed, and a "joint comment" with the number of respondents with those for. While not a vote, per se, it does give the regulating agency an idea of how far apart opposing camps are. The real voices in getting any regulation passed or defeated are the "stakeholders" who attend the public meetings in DC. This includes conservation organizations for and against, as well as organizations that claim to represent the interests of concerned citizens. "Stakeholders" (for the most part) is a fancy word for lobbyists, but does also include concerned citizens. Past public meetings attendees and notes should be available in the docket on regulations.gov but I didn't go so far as to look specifically if there had actually been a public meeting in DC on this yet, or if one has been scheduled in the future.

So, yes, weigh in with a comment on regulations.gov. But also make sure your hunting/conservation organizations are representing your interests at the public meetings in DC.

Cheers!
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: gunnarnewt on July 12, 2013, 01:58:11 PM: done!
Title: Re: Urgent Please Comment on Wolf Delisting
Post by: OOptics on July 12, 2013, 03:25:20 PM: Quote from: WonkyWapiti on July 08, 2013, 07:42:13 PM
Robby Denning posted this on Rokslide but I thought it was important to add here as well.

Please comment on wolves delisting.

According to Boone & Crockett newsletter, the antis are beating us up in the delisting process:

Wolf Advocates Are More Proactive Than Hunters? Can This Be?

Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hasting released a statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to delist the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Part of the process involves public comment on the issue. So far there have been over 13,000 comments left on the regulations.gov website with the overwhelming majority of them against de-listing.

LET YOURSELVES BE HEARD!

Deadline is September 11.

Leave Your Comments!

Here is the link. It was easy, please do it unless you want the Feds to manage wolves instead of the states.
http://www.regulations.gov/?utm_sour...Q-ES-2013-0073 (http://www.regulations.gov/?utm_sour...Q-ES-2013-0073)

Done. Thanks for sharing this! As hunters we need to stand up for what we believe in. My Dad lives in Montana and I hear about the issues they have over there regarding wolves. These predators are no longer endangered.