

| 'The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.' -- Martin Luther King HEART OF THE WOLF ORGANIZATION NEWS 12/22/2009 More bad news in the realm of the wolf has surfaced. 1) Wolves in 5 packs have been targeted in Montana, for termination by the USFWS. As a result, 5 wolves are going to be shot to death. This will destabilize the packs there, leading to more depredations and as we figure, the Montana FWP has no interest in using Non-Lethal Methods and Predator Friendly Ranching as usual. Therefore not only are 5 wolves at risk, but so are five packs. http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11715368 Contact the Montana FWP in opposition and if you have legal connections, sue to halt this. Contact Judge Molloy telling him to stop this senseless violence. http://www.heartofthewolf.org/StopTheHunt.html 2) 'Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?' -- Jean Renoir Living With Wolves recently posted a year end Special talking about the Thanksgiving Wolf Massacre. In it, it had a report that although it condemned the slaughter, still supported the destruction of wolves in livestock issues. Which of course is ridiculous since there are plenty of methods to prevent the destruction of livestock by wolves without murder and mayhem. http://www.heartofthewolf.org/source.html A more reasoned view is below, however, even though we don't have control of what ranchers do on private land, it shouldn't stop us from working with them to reach the goal of stopping this violent conflict. http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/thanksgiving-week-massac re-of-basin-butte-wolves-stanley-idaho/ 3) As we talked about, fear and hatred of wolves by the hunting industry and those in the ranching industry that hate wolves is ever increasing. It is happening in Sweden now: http://timberwolfinformation.org/info/archieve/newspapers/viewnews.cfm?ID=6 194 To help stop the hunt go here: http://www.heartofthewolf.org/HoWWolfNewsUpdate12182009.html Mike Wagner Founder and Director of Heart of the Wolf Organization http://www.heartofthewolf.org |