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9. Idaho State Fish & Game makes a lot of money from the sale of hunting licenses for Elk
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 04:27 PM
Feb 2016

and they are blaming the wolves in the Clearwater National Forest for the decline in Elk populations, (The wolves are not the reason for the decline in the Elk population)

As far as "What can they do?"
Both The Defenders of Wildlife and The Humane Society of the United States are trying to help the Idaho wolves.
Other groups such as The Center for Biological Diversity are also trying to help stop the federal "Wildlife Services" (USDA) from shooting the wolves from helicopters.

I will be spending the next 2 hours contacting these and other animal rights groups and suggesting that they coordinate their efforts on a new Petition To USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop the Idaho wolf slaughter.

The White House "We The People" Petition process is the best, IMO, and I will be asking these groups to "pool their resources" and create a brand new Petition to Secretary Vilsack to end the shooting of all Idaho wolves.

As far as I know, there are no current petitions for this "Lolo Zone" wolf slaughter to stop; so I will be trying to convince the 3 animal rights groups I just mentioned to "coordinate" and start a new "We The People" Petition, which will have to get 100,000 signatures within 30 days in order for the White House to have to respond to it.

Meanwhile, we all can contact Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and urge others to do so as well.


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