Northwest Animal Rights Network
(NARN) and
Center for Biological Diversity
August 2016
The Diamond M Ranch has routinely used Washington's Colville National Forest—federal public land—to graze its cattle. The presence of cattle caused the wolves' natural, wild prey (deer) to disperse. So, inevitably, the wolves killed the only prey available to them—and now, they are being killed for it.
Six wolves have been killed so far in this pack on behalf of rancher Len McIrvin.
Image from
BornFree USA
Call Gov. Jay Inslee’s office about why the state is killing a second pack of wolves for a rancher who The Seattle Times says put his cows “right on top of the Profanity Peak pack’s dean.”
The person who answers will transfer
you to Fish & Wildlife. That’s what she’s been instructed to do. If that
happens, call back and say that you’d rather speak to someone in the
governor’s office. That way he’ll know how many people are calling.
You might consider asking him
not to route his calls to Fish & Wildlife.
Leave message on the website here.
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Governor Jay Inslee
Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
phone (360) 902-4111
fax (360) 753-4110
From Center for Biological Diversity:
Snipers Snuff Out Four More Wolves In Washington
More grim news out of Washington state: Snipers have killed four more
wolves -- three adults and a female pup. The Profanity Peak wolf pack family
has been shattered, reduced to just one adult struggling to care for the
four surviving four-month-old pups.
The killing of this pack -- which, once it's done, will have wiped out 12
percent of the wild wolves in the state -- has been authorized by
Washington's wildlife agency despite evidence that a rancher placed his
cattle right over the pack's den. Robert Weilgus, director of the Large
Carnivore Conservation Lab at Washington State University, told reporters
that "This livestock operator elected to put his livestock directly on top
of their den site; we have pictures of cows swamping it." We can't allow
this kind of provocation to keep leading to state-sanctioned wolf slaughter.
It's time for the gloves to come off -- we're in a bareknuckle fight for
these animals' survival. But time is not on our side, so please help now.
Make a donation today to the Center's Wolf Defense Fund.
Wolves desperately need our help. Not only are the state bureaucrats in
Washington hoping to finish off the Profanity Peak pack, local Ferry County
officials also swear they'll take matters into their own hands. They've said
they're eager to send their sheriff to finish the job by killing any
remaining pack members. This would be a gross violation of the law and set a
terrible precedent -- a local posse bent on killing is brutal and primitive.
When and if Ferry County tries this tactic, the Center's ready to go to
court to stop it.
The Center is leading the counterattack against the wolf haters. From
Washington, D.C. to Washington state, our lawyers, scientists and activists
are fighting anti-wolf extremists who would destroy the progress we've made
over the past quarter-century. We've saved the lives of countless wolves
across America, shutting down those trying to turn their habitat into
feedlots, timber farms and open-pit mines.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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