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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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• Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf Joins 240+ Conservation Groups Urging Lawmakers to Reject Anti-Wildlife Riders

  

  This year’s House and Senate bills currently include provisions that would strip away federal protections for wolves and several other species, choke off funding for listed species and block provisions for wolves among other species in peril.

  BrittRic

  February 12, 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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• 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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• 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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• ACTION ALERT: Oppose the War on Wolves Rider

  

  We are calling on all advocates to OPPOSE the War on Wolves Rider, which undermines the Endangered Species Act and strips Gray Wolves of existing federal protections.

  BrittRic

  July 10, 2017

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• JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Congress Unleashes War on Wolves Act

  

  Senators from Minnesota and Wisconsin introduce bill to strip protections from endangered grey wolves.

  BrittRic

  January 19, 2017

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