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Native American Rights Group to Petition Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks for Sacred Resource Protection Safety Zone

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Native American Rights Group to Petition Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks for Sacred Resource Protection Safety Zone in 2017, and re-petitioned again February 2018.

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May 24, 2017 Petition Submitted, NO RESPONSE from Montana Game and Fish

February 15, 2018 Petition Resubmitted By Our Volunteer in Montana Dagmar Haria Riddle

 

Contact:

Roger Dobson, Media Director, Protect The Wolves Pack, (406) 219-8690

Vicki Markus, Laramie Volunteer Staff Member, Protect The Wolves Pack, (816) 830-1119

Patricia Herman, President, Protect The Wolves™, (406) 219-8690

Dr. Tony Povilitis, Wildlife Scientist/Biologist, Campaign for Yellowstone’s Wolves, (520)384-3886

 

Indigenous Rights Group to Petition Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks for Sacred Resource Protection Safety Zone Around National Parks

 

Gardiner, Mt. – A Native American advocacy group, Protect the Wolves Pack, today announced that it will petition Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to establish a 50-kilometer (31-mile) sacred resource protection safety zone around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks where wolf killing, predator calls, and night time hunting would be entirely prohibited. The group plans to submit its petition this Wednesday, May 24th, Via Email and online comments on wolf hunting regulations in Montana.

“We are concerned about reports that Montana guides and outfitters are using predator calls to lure wolves out of the national park so their clients can shoot them,” said Roger Dobson of Protect The Wolves Pack, a Cowlitz tribal member from Washington state. “If we don’t protect the wolves as they wander outside national park boundaries, they’re bound to get shot.”

Currently, the State of Montana wolf management plan allows trophy hunting of wolves right up to the boundaries of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, and as a result wolf packs that live inside national park boundaries are vulnerable to hunting, trapping, and other causes of death when they wander across the invisible boundaries that separate protected National Park lands from national Forests and other land ownerships where they can be killed.

“Our National Parks are mandated to protect sacred tribal sites as well as sacred resources for the indigenous under National Park policy,” said Vicki Markus, a volunteer for Protect The Wolves Pack who resides in Centennial, Wyoming. “It is time that the trustees begin managing our resources for the public, and not the well-funded special interest trophy hunter and cattle rancher associations.

In Yellowstone, a preponderance of scientific studies show that the reintroduction of wolves has triggered a re-balancing of the natural system, helping shrubs and trees like aspen and cottonwood to recover and thrive, and improving habitat for native wildlife from songbirds to beavers and wolverines.

Protect the Wolves also plans to submit petitions to protect the Yellowstone wolves signed by over 370,000 members of the public at the meeting, which will grow more before Comment period closes that have been gathered by Dr. Tony Povilitis with Campaign for Yellowstone’s Wolves.

“It is disheartening that the vast majority of Americans in fact support wolves, yet are allowed to be controlled tiny group of well-connected and political powerful ranchers who seem to drive anti-wolf policies in the Wyoming state agencies,” added Markus.

The petition is the brainchild of Tony Povilitis helping the Native American rights advocates, who view wolves as a sacred resource of great importance to their culture.

“Wolves are a sacred resource to native peoples,” said Dobson. “Wolves are part of the Seven Teachings, teaching us humility and how to function as a family unit.”

The petition has garnered letters of support from the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, NW Tribal Emergency Management, National Tribal Emergency Management.

“Protect The Wolves™ Pack has spoken with local Tribes in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming and anticipate letters of support coming prior to the June 19th comment deadline period,” added Dobson. Further he stated that they have also been contacted by the Rocky Mountain Region of the Department of Justice, which has told them that they will help them set up meetings with upper management regarding indigenous sacred resources. Protect The Wolves™ has also been contacted by the Bureau of Indian affairs seeking an honest Pro-Wolf Opinion, and offered whatever assistance that they can provide.

 

Comments

  1. I would like you to know that l fully support a Sacred Resource Safety Protection Zone.
    Currently hunting is allowed right up to the boundaries of Yellowstone & Glacier National Parks. This means wildlife that wander across invisible boundaries are shit by hunters. As a wildlife photographer l watched as a group of bison crossed over the boundary & were shot by hunters. Hunters have also been known to call wolves out of the Oask with pup distress calls. Also Grizzly Bears have even wandering out of the Park to find food as their main sources of food are disappearing, the cutthroat trout & the white pine trees have been affected by climate change. If the Grizzlies are going to survive they need a larger range.
    Tourists go to these parks to see wildlife but their chances are diminishing every year.
    As a photographer l decided to go Grizzly Bear watching in the Khutzeymateen Sanctuary in Canada. I knew it would to be nearly impossible to see Grizzlies in Yellowstone. The same goes for wolves. Yellowstone is just becoming a thermal theme park.
    It is time to look after the main attraction in Yellowstone which is the wildlife. In the meantime l will spend my thousands of dollars photographing wildlife in Canada.
    Wake up & protect your best assets.
    Diane Lang

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