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Even as late as noon today, Sen. Baucus and Tester of Montana were trying to cut a deal with Senator Bennett and Hatch of Utah that would have delisted wolves partially, demanded higher numbers of wolves, kept Wyoming in limbo, and all delisting would have been relisted in five years – automatic sunset of delisting. IN other words, kicking the partial can down the road for five years.



Sen. Hatch countered with some of our compromise language which would have clearly meet the intent of the wolf delisting of the past 10 years, keeping a TOTAL 450 wolves, all states delisted in the west.



Sportsmen were willing to keep the agreement everyone made 10 years ago.



Senator B and T clearly were the champions of the Animal Rights Extremists, and went against SFW, RMEF, MDF, Montana Cattleman, Montana Farmers, Montana Woolgrowers and Montana SCI.



Hatch and Bennett killed the T and B language.



So, good news, NO BAD wolf language passed this congress.



Bad news, our language did not pass.



IN the next congress, with the House in control of Republicans and the Western Republicans already strongly out in favor of our legislation, it will be much more difficult for T and B to pass a BAD bill.



The pressure in Montana needs to be ramped up by Montana citizens to pass a good bill



T and B cannot come home and say we tried, their bill was a further strengthening of the Federal control over state owned wildlife.



Thanks to all the phone calls, Sen. Tester and Baucus got thousands, just not enough, yet.

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Your Rights to Hunt and Fish are about to be lost in Congress. WE NEED YOUR HELP TODAY.

This week anti-hunting forces launched an assault on Congress this week. The Obama administration, Barbara Boxer (D) California, and John Tester (D) Montana are trying to pass one of the most harmful pieces of anti-hunting legislation in years. Anti-hunting groups and their friends in Congress added the language last Wednesday in a MUST-PASS appropriations bill to take away state management of wildlife. For the first time, this will allow anti-hunting radicals in San Francisco and New York to tell the people of YOUR STATE how to manage its wildlife. It is all being done in the name of allowing for management of wolves. DON’T BE FOOLED.

The governors of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana met with the Obama Administration last week to finalize negotiations intended to return wolves to state wildlife management. Instead, the Obama Administration told the governors they planned on passing a different bill. The bill is dangerous for two reasons: (1) it takes away key constitutional rights of state wildlife management; and (2) transfers the authority to the Obama Administration to dictate to the states how to manage their wildlife. The Governors immediately rejected the bill and thought the issue was dead. Instead, Obama tried to sneak his language onto the spending bill last Wednesday. We caught the language and immediately began working to counter their efforts. The bill will likely go to vote this week. WE MUST STOP THIS FEDERAL POWER GRAB IMMEDIATELY.

WE NEED YOUR HELP. We need YOU along with thousands of sportsmen from across the country to contact their members of Congress. Thousands of anti-hunters are calling and emailing their members of Congress-because they know that calling and emailing does work. I have spent the last several weeks in Washington, D.C. working with Senators Hatch (R) Utah, McCain (R) Arizona, Barrasso (R) Wyoming, Risch (R) Idaho and other members of Congress to kill the Obama legislation and instead pass a bill that would return wolves to state wildlife managers with no strings attached. Every sportsmen state has hundreds of thousands of hunters and fisherman. We outnumber the radicals and we have friends in Congress who need your help. WE CAN WIN THIS BATTLE BY WORKING TOGETHER. ALL IT TAKES IS 2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
(1) Send an email to all of your members of Congress. It just takes 30 seconds. Visit the website http://capwiz.com/biggameforever/home/; Click on the button “Take Action”. Using your zip code the system will then help you automatically send an email to all of YOUR Senators, Congressmen and the Obama Administration;
(2) Send this email to 10 friends and ask them to take action. You can use the “Tell a friend” tool at http://capwiz.com/biggameforever/home/; or simply forward this email;
(3) Call Senator Tester’s Washington D.C. Office at (202)224-2644. Be professional but tell them that (A) YOU DO NOT SUPPORT HIS BILL on wolf management; (B) You DO support Senator Hatch’s bill S.3919; and (c) As co-chairman of the Congressional sportsman’s caucus you are disappointed that he wants to take away authority from the people of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and YOUR state to manage the state wildlife resources and give it to the Obama Administration.

Thanks for your efforts to preserve our rights to hunt and fish.

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