Congress is Targeting Wolves — Here’s How to Help

Every year, Congress must pass budget bills to fund government agencies. Hidden in these massive spending bills are often “riders,” or amendments unrelated to the budget, slipped in to advance controversial policies that wouldn’t pass on their own.

This year, the U.S. House Interior and Environment Appropriations bill includes Section 128, a rider that would strip Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections from gray wolves across the entire country.

We’ve seen this before. In 2011, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) used a similar budget rider to delist wolves in the Northern Rockies. That rider opened the floodgates to aggressive state-led wolf killing policies in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Now it’s happening again, and this time, no wolves are safe.

For example, when wolves briefly lost federal protection in 2020 in Wisconsin, 218 wolves were killed in just the first three days of the ensuing public wolf hunt, forcing the state to halt it. History is bound to repeat itself, not only in Wisconsin, but all over the country.

If Section 128 passes, it will dismantle science-based protections and leave wolf management entirely to state politics, where decisions are often driven by special interests rather than conservation—threatening the future of wolf populations across the country.

Silence is not an option. Call or email your U.S. House and Senate members and urge them to oppose Section 128.

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