Neal
04-02-2007, 08:56 AM
The following message is from the SCI Washington D.C. Office. If you are able to lend your assistance, please contact the per the instructions.
Dear SCI Members:
As you probably are well aware, on March 12, 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the gray wolves of the Western Great Lakes. Just days after the listing was announced, five animal rights groups, including HSUS, the Animal Protections Institute (API), Help Our Wolves Live (HOWL), the Minnesota Wolf Alliance and Friends of Animals and Their Environment (FATE) sent the FWS a letter announcing their intent to sue to challenge the delisting. We expect that their suit will be filed in early to mid April.
Safari Club International is seriously considering participating in the impending lawsuit, to defend the FWS's decision to delist wolves. If we decide to go forward and participate in the suit, we will need the help of some of our members in the states that have been impacted by the delisting. To show the court that SCI has a sufficient interest in the wolf delisting, we need statements from some of our members that we can file with court that shows how SCI's members hope to benefit from the delisting and how those members could be harmed if wolves were returned to the endangered species list (if the legal challenge to the delisting was successful).
We are looking for SCI members who have hunted in Michigan, Minnesota or Wisconsin and who plan to hunt again in one or more of those states in the near future. We are hoping to find members who have encountered wolves and or signs of wolves during their hunting expeditions, especially those members who might have had an unpleasant encounter with a wolf (lost prey to a wolf, lost a hunting dog to a wolf) or those members who might have found themselves competing with a wolf or wolves for the prey they were hunting. We are also looking for members who might have witnessed a wolf preying on a game species in one of those states.
If you are an SCI member or know of such a member who has had one of the experiences described above, and would be willing to put together and sign a statement about yourself, your hunting practices and your experience(s) with wolves while hunting, and would allow us to use your statement in court to support SCI's interest in participating in the litigation over the delisting of Western Great Lakes wolves, please contact our Chief Litigation Counsel, Anna Seidman. You can e-mail her directly at <mailto:aseidman@sci-dc.org> or call her at 202-543-8733.
Thank you for your help!
Ken Schwartz
SCI Washington D.C. Office
Dear SCI Members:
As you probably are well aware, on March 12, 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the gray wolves of the Western Great Lakes. Just days after the listing was announced, five animal rights groups, including HSUS, the Animal Protections Institute (API), Help Our Wolves Live (HOWL), the Minnesota Wolf Alliance and Friends of Animals and Their Environment (FATE) sent the FWS a letter announcing their intent to sue to challenge the delisting. We expect that their suit will be filed in early to mid April.
Safari Club International is seriously considering participating in the impending lawsuit, to defend the FWS's decision to delist wolves. If we decide to go forward and participate in the suit, we will need the help of some of our members in the states that have been impacted by the delisting. To show the court that SCI has a sufficient interest in the wolf delisting, we need statements from some of our members that we can file with court that shows how SCI's members hope to benefit from the delisting and how those members could be harmed if wolves were returned to the endangered species list (if the legal challenge to the delisting was successful).
We are looking for SCI members who have hunted in Michigan, Minnesota or Wisconsin and who plan to hunt again in one or more of those states in the near future. We are hoping to find members who have encountered wolves and or signs of wolves during their hunting expeditions, especially those members who might have had an unpleasant encounter with a wolf (lost prey to a wolf, lost a hunting dog to a wolf) or those members who might have found themselves competing with a wolf or wolves for the prey they were hunting. We are also looking for members who might have witnessed a wolf preying on a game species in one of those states.
If you are an SCI member or know of such a member who has had one of the experiences described above, and would be willing to put together and sign a statement about yourself, your hunting practices and your experience(s) with wolves while hunting, and would allow us to use your statement in court to support SCI's interest in participating in the litigation over the delisting of Western Great Lakes wolves, please contact our Chief Litigation Counsel, Anna Seidman. You can e-mail her directly at <mailto:aseidman@sci-dc.org> or call her at 202-543-8733.
Thank you for your help!
Ken Schwartz
SCI Washington D.C. Office