Timely: Wolves need us to speak out

Some members of Congress are trying to radically expand wolf hunting and trapping.

They’ve added a few words to a massive, must-pass spending bill, trying to reinstate regulations written by the previous administration’s Interior Department in 2020. The language would erase Endangered Species Act protections for all gray wolves, opening the door to nationwide wolf hunting and trapping.

The last time wolves lost protections at this scale, they were slaughtered by the hundreds. In Wisconsin alone, hunters killed more than 200 wolves in just 60 hours. In the Northern Rockies, where wolves have already lost protections, state governments are pulling out all the stops to kill as many wolves as possible: Chasing wolves down with snowmobiles, giving out taxpayer dollars for each wolf killed, even burning pups alive in their dens.

Tell your U.S. House representative: Gray wolves need to be protected, not hunted down and slaughtered.