[FEL-L] Fwd: [WolfdogZ] ALERT!! - Tell Forest Service to Scrap Proposal to Kill Predators in Wilderness

[Prometheus Horse]

To my understanding this would theoretically affect all predators, mustelids included, though the impact will be felt mostly on canids and cougars. Just thought I'd forward this to let you make your own decision, and hopefully write to the USF&WS to rethink and not implement this policy change.
   
  Tim Fuller
  

nw wolflady <dianl at cascadeaccess.com> wrote:
  To: <WolfDogAdoption at yahoogroups.com>,
<wolfdogz at yahoogroups.com>
From: "nw wolflady" <dianl at cascadeaccess.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:51:48 -0700
Subject: [WolfdogZ] ALERT!! - Tell Forest Service to Scrap Proposal to Kill Predators in Wilderness

This plan stinks!! Please consider responding and adding to your prayer 
list. The world has gone mad! and by the way what am I doing in this 
handbasket??


^o^ Dian

>
> On June 7, 2006 the Forest Service (FS) issued a proposed directive
> for "Predator Damage Management in Wilderness Areas," which it
> claims is necessary to conform to a recently revised Memorandum of
> Understanding (MOU) between the FS and Wildlife Services (a program
> operating under USDA/APHIS). This directive would result in the
> deaths of whole populations of wolves, bears, cougars and other
> predators in some of our most protected public lands.
>
> The directive between FS and Wildlife Services (WS) would make the
> following significant and unprecedented changes to current predator
> killing policies in FS Wilderness:
>
> 1)Removes current policy requiring case-by-case approval by Regional
> Forest Supervisors for all predator killing in Wilderness areas-
> transforming the practice from a rare exception under the close
> control of the FS to one in which all WS activities in Wilderness
> are assumed to be lawful and necessary.
>
> 2)In the past, WS's role was largely limited to cases where
> significant livestock losses were being caused by predators. The
> proposed directive and recently-revised MOU vastly expand this role
> to almost any circumstance involving wildlife "management goals,"
> including management of wildlife diseases and the protection of
> other wildlife from predation. It also allows such goals to be
> established by "collaborative processes" involving local interests
> hostile to native wildlife. This opens the door to proposals such as
> those by the Clearwater National Forest to dramatically reduce wolf
> populations within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness for the supposed
> protection of elk herds. It is also antithetical to the concept of
> wilderness as an area where natural processes predominate.
>
> 3) Allows not only WS, but State agencies and private individuals,
> to conduct predator killing on FS Wilderness areas. Only WS is
> explicitly required to analyze proposed actions under the National
> Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
>
> 4) Eliminates current Forest Service policy emphasis on predators'
> critical ecological role in natural ecosystems.
>
> 5) Authorizes aircraft landing, travel by off-road vehicles and
> other motorized transportation, and use of motorized equipment in
> order to "facilitate implementation" of predator killing.
>
> 6) Permits use of pesticides such as M-44 guns to kill predators. (M-
> 44's are devices that are stuck in the ground and baited; when a
> predator bites on the bait, the "gun" part of the device shoots
> cyanide into the animal's mouth)
>
>
> We are asking all concerned citizens to send public comments to the
> Forest Service by their deadline of August 7th, to protest this
> proposal and demand that it be scrapped.
>
> IF YOU WISH TO READ THE FOREST SERVICE PROPOSAL DIRECTLY, CUT AND
> PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK INTO YOUR WEB BROWSER(the proposal is the
> 3rd item on page 1):
>
> http://action.defenders.org/predproposal
>
>
> TO SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS TO THE FOREST SERVICE, CUT AND PASTE THE
> FOLLOWING LINK INTO YOUR WEB BROWSER FOR OUR ACTION ALERT AT:
>
>
> http://action.defenders.org/pnwolfpredator
>
> At our Action Alert site, you may use the sample comment letter
> there to submit but PLEASE ALSO add some personal statements of your
> own at the top of the letter before you hit Send. Your letter will
> have far greater impact if you take a few minutes to personalize
> it. You know from our experience in the Oregon wolf planning
> process that simply signing and sending in a form letter has little
> effect and you must personalize the letter to have impact.
>
> WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP IN STOPPING THIS PROPOSAL BY THE
> FOREST SERVICE. PLEASE GO TO OUR ACTION ALERT SITE TO SEND IN YOUR
> COMMENTS NOW. THE COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE IS AUGUST 7th.
>
> Thanks for all you do to help protect wolves and other wildlife,
>
> Amaroq Weiss and Laura Jones
>
> Defenders of Wildlife




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