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 Determine the Legacy of Wolf 341F

Write a letter to Interior Secretary Salazar today, telling him wolves must remain on the Endangered Species List, and that they need a recovery plan in the Southern Rockies

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I am writing to you today on behalf of wolf 314F, a female wolf from southern Montana who wandered over 1,000 miles into Colorado in search of a new home and a mate to start a family with.  Sadly, she did not find any wolves to mate with in Colorado, because wolves were eradicated by 1945 -- and because without a recovery plan, it is unlikely that wolves will successfully re-colonize Colorado.  Worse, the plans to remove legal protections from wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains threaten to drastically erode chances for wolves to migrate from Wyoming.

Presently, wolves occupy less than five-percent of their former range in the lower forty-eight states.  Yet, two separate studies have shown that the Southern Rocky Mountains, which include nearly all of western Colorado, could support over 1,000 wolves.  Without a recovery plan, wolves will never reclaim Colorado.  Without wolves, Colorado's wild places will continue to wither under burgeoning and sedentary populations of elk and deer; one need look no further than the problems elk are causing in Rocky Mountain National Park to see why we need wolves.  Likewise, without legal protections, wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains will never make their way south to Colorado.

So, Mr. Secretary, I join thousands of citizens in urging you to expedite the development of a recovery plan for wolves in the Southern Rockies, and to reconsider your decision to remove legal protections from wolves to the north.  The sooner this magnificent and important carnivore has a roadmap to recovery, the sooner we can proudly call them a recovered wildlife species. 

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