Pass this to all who love elk!
Updated that I just received from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Folks,

I am sending you the official plan from the federal government to place wolves in the Southern Rockies. Every sportsman in America needs to see this plan. These plans will spread wolves into 97.5% of all elk in America.

Here is what they are doing: Baca National Wildlife refuge in Southern Colorado will have wolves transplanted in 2012 if portions of this plan are implemented. Baca is much, much smaller than Yellowstone. It is only 70 Miles from Northern New Mexico. It is only 250 Miles from Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Wolves can travel that far in less than a week.

Yellowstone National Park was used to introduce wolves to the Northern Rockies. Without your help, history will repeat itself this year in the Southern Rockies.

See the official plan for yourself at the link below (look on page 8, bottom of the first column where they mention the introduction of wolves in Colorado's Baca National Wildlife Refuge).

http://www.fws.gov/alamosa/​pl...ccp_update2_web2.pdf
Here is how you can help stop these plans:
(1) Spread the word: Send this email to 10 friends and ask them to forward this email to more friends.
(2) Join the Fight: If you haven't already, sign the online petition to stop these wolf expansion plans at http://biggameforever.org/
(3) Take Action: It only takes 30 seconds to send a message to your representatives in Congress to stop these plans. Simply go to http://biggameforever.org/​takeaction and click the “Take Action” button to send a message in support of two bills in Congress, S. 249 and H.R. 509, the Big Game and Livestock Protection Act. Without S. 249 and H.R. 509, it will be very difficult to slow down these plans to expand wolves throughout 97.5% of all elk in America.

Without a very substantial outcry from sportsmen and livestock owners, wolves will very likely be placed in Colorado this year. While attempts have been made to dismiss the use of wolves as "not the preferred alternative," now that they are an official part of the plan, we are one very small step away from having wolves introduced into Baca National Widlife Refuge. We can't leave this to chance.

Over 10,000 messages have already been sent to Congress to stop the plans to put wolves in the Baca, but we need many, many more. Especially from the 600,0000 hunters in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

We need all need to join the fight to stop this from happening. Remember, Idaho's elk harvest has been cut in half by wolves. Wolves have been a huge burden for livestock producers. Without substantial changes to the underlying statutes, it is a bad idea to spread these failed policies to the Southern Rockies.

Here are some news articles about these plans for wolves in Colorado.

http://www.chieftain.com/news/...5​-001871e3ce6c.html

http://​www.thedenverchannel.c...30306535/detail.html

http://www.nbc11news.com/home/..._elk_138133208.h​tml

http://trib.com/news/​state-an...b​-a3401facb586.html

http://pagosasprings.com/​wolf...o-close-for-comfort/

We are continuing to research this developing story. We will keep you apprised as developments arise.

Thanks for your willingness to join the fight to protect our ranching and outdoor heritage.
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http://www.fws.gov/alamosa/​pl...ccp_update2_web2.pdf
www.fws.gov

Holy crap! The black bear population is exploding here and already devastates the elk calf crop, ever since the tree huggers got spring bear hunting outlawed.

Count me in.

I used to live in northern Wisconsin. The deer hunting was pretty good there for almost the entire time I lived there. Then the wolves came...

I last hunted Wisconsin in 2008. I hunted every day of the nine day gun season on slightly over 1,500 acres of privately held land. In that time, I saw exactly ONE doe, heard wolves howling every day and saw five wolves...

I think the Feds need their meds adjusted if they want to expand the wolf's range....

And oddly enough, I live/hunt now in northwestern Tennessee and don't have any problems seeing deer, having shot three each year since I moved down here in 2009...

As I said in the pther thread on this issue, the USF&WS would first need to develope and approve an Evvironmental Impact statement on the plan. That will take several years and a lot of public imput to accomplish.

465H&H

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Originally posted by 465H&H:
As I said in the pther thread on this issue, the USF&WS would first need to develope and approve an Evvironmental Impact statement on the plan. That will take several years and a lot of public imput to accomplish.

465H&H

Sure as God made little green apples, this is the ONE TIME that the federal government will move swiftly...

I think we need to reintroduce them on the East Coast first. Central Park would be an ideal setting for a 12-16 animal pack, IMHO; followed closely by a couple in DC.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
I think we need to reintroduce them on the East Coast first. Central Park would be an ideal setting for a 12-16 animal pack, IMHO; followed closely by a couple in DC.

I'm all in favor of that idea! While I'm not an advocate, I've heard that the best solution to a wolf problem is best summed up in three little words...

Shoot,

Shovel,

Shut Up!

What those doofuses (doofi?) at USF&W fail to realize is that a "few" wolves won't hurt anything and will even help keep the deer on their toes. But the wolves don't stop at a few!

They continue breeding, the young of the year move off to form their own packs, and before you know it, you have the same situation that you do in Wisconsin, wolf sightings in every county in the state! And that's just too many wolves....

We're living it here in N.E. Oregon. Between the cougars, bear and now wolves our deer and elk populations are being hit hard. Ranchers have a fight on their hands and now our tax dollars are being used in compensation.

It'll get worse before it gets better. Hope you guys have better luck than we did.

The greenies want the wolves to kill the elk so the hunting would be nixed and then place elk on the protected species list. False scarcity tactics and loonacy.

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I think we need to reintroduce them on the East Coast first. Central Park would be an ideal setting for a 12-16 animal pack, IMHO; followed closely by a couple in DC.

Rich's plan is a sound one...all in favor say Aye!

Aye!

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
I think we need to reintroduce them on the East Coast first. Central Park would be an ideal setting for a 12-16 animal pack, IMHO; followed closely by a couple in DC.

Several more should be relocated to UC Berkley, Boulder and a few of the Ivy League school campus's.