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Dear David,

Bad news from the Northern Rockies: Last weekend, the Idaho Anti-Wolf Coalition kicked off a new signature drive to eliminate all wolves from the state.

Thanks to people like you, we’ve made some great strides in the last few weeks. But our small team on the ground is totally overwhelmed in our fight to save hundreds of wolves in the Northern Rockies.

Please consider joining the Wildlife Guardians -- a special group of monthly givers who provide essential support to help us save wolves in the Northern Rockies and address other wildlife emergencies.

Your monthly gift of about 33 cents a day ($10 a month) over the next nine months will provide the crucial support for this and other important efforts to save wolves and other wildlife.

Here's why we need your help: Our staff has been working hard over the past few months, scrambling to stop Idaho and Wyoming’s wolf eradication plans. Each week, we’re spending thousands of dollars and investing hundreds of staff hours. 

But these hectic days and sleepless nights are getting results.

Our efforts to promote common sense wolf management have sparked unprecedented interest in our proactive work to compensate ranchers for wolf-related livestock losses and work to increase the use of non-lethal methods of wolf control.

Become a Wildlife Guardian today to help support this work. For just pennies a day, you can provide continuing support to save Northern Rockies wolves and other wildlife.

Because of the support of folks like you, we’ve been able to:

• Fight for and win additional time for public comments and an additional hearing on the Bush/Cheney Administration’s proposal to remove critical protections for Northern Rockies wolves;
• Send local Defenders staff to testify at every federal hearing on the wolf plan;
• Rally hundreds of grassroots conservationists to attend hearings to speak out for commonsense wolf management and outnumber anti-wolf opposition;
• Provide a leading voice for the coalition of Northern Rockies wolf conservation organizations to educate the public and fight the Bush/Cheney Administration's proposal; 
• Counter the deluge of anti-wolf misinformation through media and public outreach; and
• Hire emergency staff to help support our proactive conservation work with area ranchers and to ensure that we run the most effective campaign possible to save our wolves.

These efforts are crucial to preventing the wolf slaughter -- and our victories aren’t possible without your support. For a donation of just $10 a month -- only 33 cents a day -- you can help ensure we have the funds to win this battle on the ground.

Our campaign is far from over: 

• Already, more than 43,000 of you have spoken out for our Northern Rockies wolves. With the extended deadline for public comments, we have more time, but we still need to mobilize thousands more to action.
• With an additional public hearing scheduled in Cody, WY, we’ll need to mobilize and provide transportation to supporters to testify for our wolves.
• We’re preparing the groundwork for a legal battle to fight the federal proposal, if it goes through.

This is one fight we have to win. But we can’t save wolves without your help, so please become a Wildlife Guardian and for as little as $10 per month, you can provide ongoing support for our campaign to save wolves in the Northern Rockies.
 

Sincerely, Rodger Schlickeisen President Defenders of Wildlife