> From: EarthThunder, President Wolf Recovery Foundation
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> Victory for Wild Wolves and their families!!!
> Appeal Court Rules Yellowstone Wolves can stay in Park
>
> quoted from News Release January 13, 2000 - submitted from
> Suzanne Laverty,
> Southern Rockies Representative
> Defenders of Wildlife
> http://www.defenders.org
>
> Defenders of Wildlife hailed today's court ruling
> allowing the Yellowstone wolves to remain in the park as a historic
> victory not only for the wolf, but also for sound wildlife restoration
> in the the 21st Century.
>
> The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver today
> overturned a lower court's 1997 ruling that the 1995 and 1996 Yellowstone
> wolf reintroductions were illegal. The district court's ruling had called
> for removal of all the wolves and their offspring, an action that pleased
> the American Farm Bureau Federal (AFBF), which
> was behind the lawsuit, but that Defenders of Wildlife called a vitual
> death sentence. Today AFBF President Dean Kleckner, who called for
> removing the wolves, lost his job in an election.
>
> "It is a new day for wolves in more ways than one.
> The Yellowstone wolves have been given a new lease onlife so has
> the principle that science -- not politics -- should guide
> wildlife restoration efforts in America," said Rodger Schlickeisen,
> President of Defenders of Wildlife. "It's been two long years since the
> district court's ruling because of the obstinacy of the AFBF
> and Kleckner, but ironically he lost his job the same day the Farm
> Bureau lost the suit." Schlickeisen concluded, "We are very
> pleased that reason won in this case and that the wolves will
> be allowed to remain in the park so that future generations may
> enjoy them. We've known all along that the Farm Bureau's
> lawsuit was wrong legally and morally."
>
>
> ........thank you Defenders of Wildlife and each and every
> human-heart-howler that provided every effort imaginable to
> assure safetyfor the endurance of Freedom. Thank you to the
> Nez Perce Nation, for theirsacrifices to be listening stewards of
> the Idaho Wolves. Thank you and acknowledgement of the painful
> sacrifices of the biologists, Yellowstone Park heroines and
> heroes. Thank you, many gratitudes to the Wild Wolves, for their
> phenomenal patience, endurance, beauty, teaching and
> privilege.
>
>
> May the Millenium 2000 be heralded as a 1,000 years of
> appreciation and accountability to our Wild Elders, the wolves
> and their love of us, their brother and sister humans.
>
> "Ask each morning as you rise a profound question.
> Are you awakening to the amazement of a new day, one
> whole life?
> Are you awakening demanding what you deserve?
> ...or
> Are you awakening to ask how you may be of Service to
> the privilege of being a small/powerful piece of our
> Global Family? Are you accepting that you will acrue
> whatever tools/skills/creative planning/friends are
> needed to assure ethical living?"
>
> Wah-do, thank you in Cherokee. May humans remember we are the
> Song and the Dance, the Natural families and habitats are our
> Teachers.
>
> EarthThunder
> President
>
> http://www.forwolves.org
