More than 900 wolves are poised to be killed in Montana this year, and there may only be 900 wolves total in the entire state. Montana's legislature, at the behest of Governor Greg Gianforte, is now considering passing HB-367.
HB-367 would permanently enshrine trapping into the Montana Constitution, making wildlife trapping a Constitutional Right, with no 'undue' restrictions.
Many anti-wolf bills are going to pass this session. However, HB-367 requires a two-thirds majority in order to pass. Montana's senate has 52 democrats: if they all hold, the bill and the constitutional amendment will die and do no harm. You can help make a difference!
HB-367 would drive wolves in Montana to extinction. Montana's outrageous legislation is being driven by less than 5,000 trappers (just 1/2 of one percent of the population), but HB-367 will destroy wolves on more than 95 million acres of Montana's public land.
Trapping is cruel, immoral and destructive to all wildlife. Please sign this petition. Demand that Montana's government says NO to HB-367, says NO to enshrining trapping and snaring forever!
Visit FootlooseMontana.org for more information!
There is a deep fear buried in the psyche of Americans. Wolves have been demonized by Puritan/Evangelical bible interpretations and there is also the fear of competition with an apex predator, if only as a delusion. All somewhat perfectly summarized by Farley Mowat:
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself."