Dear Secretary Haaland, As a conservative who strongly believes in wildlife conservation, I urge you to issue an emergency Endangered Species Act (ESA) relisting to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and enact a five mile no kill buffer zone around Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks. While I am glad USFWS is conducting an official review regarding relisting gray wolves, the alarming rate of wolf slaughter in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—along with new state laws designed to eliminate 90 percent of the remaining wolf population—threatens to completely reverse decades of wolf recovery progress under the ESA. In your recent USA Today op-ed, you called Gray wolf recovery “an American conservation success story,” and that their continued recovery depends on “cooperation” at the state, tribal, and federal levels. Clearly, state-level cooperation is not happening with those three key Rocky Mountain States. Since the 2011 delisting, more than 10,000 wolves have been killed, and state lawmakers openly declare that their objective is to reduce wolf numbers to the bare minimum of 15 breeding pairs—or eliminate them completely. Considering these states’ notorious track record since 2011, and new laws designed to expand the rate of slaughter, an emergency ESA relisting is the only way to salvage the wolf recovery success story. Anything less turns that story into an unforgivable tragedy—and a permanent stain on the Biden administration.

Dear Secretary Haaland, As a conservative who strongly believes in wildlife conservation, I urge you to issue an emergency Endangered Species Act (ESA) relisting to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and enact a five mile no kill buffer zone around Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks. While I am glad USFWS is conducting an official review regarding relisting gray wolves, the alarming rate of wolf slaughter in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—along with new state laws designed to eliminate 90 percent of the remaining wolf population—threatens to completely reverse decades of wolf recovery progress under the ESA. In your recent USA Today op-ed, you called Gray wolf recovery “an American conservation success story,” and that their continued recovery depends on “cooperation” at the state, tribal, and federal levels. Clearly, state-level cooperation is not happening with those three key Rocky Mountain States. Since the 2011 delisting, more than 10,000 wolves have been killed, and state lawmakers openly declare that their objective is to reduce wolf numbers to the bare minimum of 15 breeding pairs—or eliminate them completely. Considering these states’ notorious track record since 2011, and new laws designed to expand the rate of slaughter, an emergency ESA relisting is the only way to salvage the wolf recovery success story. Anything less turns that story into an unforgivable tragedy—and a permanent stain on the Biden administration.

Dear Secretary Haaland, As a conservative who strongly believes in wildlife conservation, I urge you to issue an emergency Endangered Species Act (ESA) relisting to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and enact a five mile no kill buffer zone around Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks. While I am glad USFWS is conducting an official review regarding relisting gray wolves, the alarming rate of wolf slaughter in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—along with new state laws designed to eliminate 90 percent of the remaining wolf population—threatens to completely reverse decades of wolf recovery progress under the ESA. In your recent USA Today op-ed, you called Gray wolf recovery “an American conservation success story,” and that their continued recovery depends on “cooperation” at the state, tribal, and federal levels. Clearly, state-level cooperation is not happening with those three key Rocky Mountain States. Since the 2011 delisting, more than 10,000 wolves have been killed, and state lawmakers openly declare that their objective is to reduce wolf numbers to the bare minimum of 15 breeding pairs—or eliminate them completely. Considering these states’ notorious track record since 2011, and new laws designed to expand the rate of slaughter, an emergency ESA relisting is the only way to salvage the wolf recovery success story. Anything less turns that story into an unforgivable tragedy—and a permanent stain on the Biden administration.

Dear Secretary Haaland, As a conservative who strongly believes in wildlife conservation, I urge you to issue an emergency Endangered Species Act (ESA) relisting to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and enact a five mile no kill buffer zone around Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks. While I am glad USFWS is conducting an official review regarding relisting gray wolves, the alarming rate of wolf slaughter in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—along with new state laws designed to eliminate 90 percent of the remaining wolf population—threatens to completely reverse decades of wolf recovery progress under the ESA. In your recent USA Today op-ed, you called Gray wolf recovery “an American conservation success story,” and that their continued recovery depends on “cooperation” at the state, tribal, and federal levels. Clearly, state-level cooperation is not happening with those three key Rocky Mountain States. Since the 2011 delisting, more than 10,000 wolves have been killed, and state lawmakers openly declare that their objective is to reduce wolf numbers to the bare minimum of 15 breeding pairs—or eliminate them completely. Considering these states’ notorious track record since 2011, and new laws designed to expand the rate of slaughter, an emergency ESA relisting is the only way to salvage the wolf recovery success story. Anything less turns that story into an unforgivable tragedy—and a permanent stain on the Biden administration.