Bush Administration Takes Aim at Wolves

In Greater Yellowstone and across the Northern Rockies, gray wolves are facing mounting habitat destruction from industrial development and other harmful activity. Nonetheless, the Bush Administration recently stripped these wolves of endangered species protection, leaving them vulnerable to mass killing. Both Wyoming and Idaho are planning to use aerial gunning, as well as baiting and trapping, to exterminate hundreds of wolves.

The comeback of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies is America's greatest wildlife recovery story. But the Bush Administration's "License to Kill" plan could drive these wolves back to the brink of extinction. Read more

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WOLF DEATH COUNT
110
  wolves
   killed
Wolves gunned down in the Northern Rockies before NRDC won a court injunction to stop the killing.

Speak Out for Yellowstone's Wild Buffalo!

This past winter, 1,600 free-roaming buffalo in Yellowstone National Park were brutally killed by the State of Montana and the Bush Administration. We cannot afford to let this disastrous slaughter happen again. Send a message to the Park Service and help stop this annual government-sponsored massacre!


Wolves: Don't Buy the Lies

The survival of wolves in the northern Rockies depends on getting the story straight. We dispel the fictions and give you the facts about wolves.

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Faces of a Movement: Why We're On Board

Jean Craighead George
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