Tag: Endangered Species

• ACTION ALERT: Protect Endangered Species in the Farm Bill

  

  This Farm Bill is set to threaten 58.5 million acres of protected forest land and eliminate regulations that protect endangered species from harmful chemicals. Please urge your Representative to oppose this bill before it’s too late.

  BrittRic

  May 15, 2018

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• ACTION ALERT: TELL PAUL RYAN TO OPPOSE LEGISLATIVE RIDERS THAT WOULD HARM ENDANGERED SPECIES

  

  Please contact Paul Ryan immediately and ask him to oppose ANY and ALL anti-wildlife riders in appropriations legislation: 855-742-9576

  BrittRic

  March 20, 2018

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• ACTION ALERT: Save the Endangered Species Act

  

  It is do or die time for Great Lakes wolves and the legal framework that protects them as we know it. Congress is considering multiple bills and amendments to legislation “riders” that would have devastating effects on wolves and the future of the Endangered Species Act itself. WE MUST ACT NOW…

  BrittRic

  March 6, 2018

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• Wisconsin Legislature Ignores Science Behind Sound Policies of Wolf Management (LTE: Carol Lee Balek)

  

  Nowhere in the Public Hearing was there mention of the critically important role the wolf plays in keeping our deer herd healthy.

  BrittRic

  January 15, 2018

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• Press Release: New Bill Would Block Wisconsin State Wildlife Management and Encourage Poaching

  

  Yesterday, Wisconsin State Representatives circulated a bill which would make it illegal for law enforcement to enforce state or federal law relating to management of wolves in Wisconsin.

  BrittRic

  November 10, 2017

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• Environmental Groups: Keep Hounding Out of Wisconsin’s National Forests

  

  A number of environmental groups, including the Endangered Species Coalition, want to keep hunters who use packs of dogs out of public lands in Wisconsin, including the state’s national forests.

  BrittRic

  September 11, 2017

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• Sarah Bergstrom: Rural Areas About More Than Wolves

  

  Who lives in rural Wisconsin? Stereotypically, farmers and hunters. But we aren’t stereotypes. We are also teachers, small business owners, artists, parents, etc. and our real needs have little to do with wolves…

  BrittRic

  September 7, 2017

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• Sample Letter to Senator Tammy Baldwin

  

  Right now, hunting, trapping and livestock groups are actively organizing to have Great Lakes wolves stripped of their endangered status without judicial review as soon as next month. This bill is co-sponsored by Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) making the legislation “bi-partisan”. Please contact her TODAY to express your opposition. Here’s how….

  BrittRic

  August 21, 2017

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• Meeting Behind Enemy Lines

  

  On Wednesday evening, I spoke out about the need for science to play a larger role in policy decision- making regarding the grey wolf and other endangered species protections in Wisconsin to a room full of t-shirts that read “kill all the wolves” and “a good wolf is a dead wolf”. Here’s what I learned…

  BrittRic

  August 18, 2017

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• URGENT: GREAT LAKES WOLVES STILL AT RISK

  

  If the bill passes, plans are already set in place to open sport and trophy hunting seasons on Great Lakes wolves which will mean more hounding, trapping, snaring and high kill quotas.

  BrittRic

  August 9, 2017

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