New legislation in Congress could free our federal public lands from the outrageous practice of intentionally killing and maiming wolves or coyotes by running them down with snowmobiles. The Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act has bipartisan support and backing from numerous non-government organizations.
Tell your member of Congress to support the bipartisan Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act.
This bill will ban the use of vehicles (snowmobiles or otherwise) to intentionally kill wildlife on federal lands managed by the Department of Interior. It comes in response to Wyoming’s failure to act in response to the torture and killing of a wolf in the state1 earlier this year.
You likely remember the horrific incident in Wyoming where a Wyoming cattle rancher and trophy hunter ran down a young wolf who later came to be called Thiea, took her–in her injured but still-living state–to a bar where he paraded her around before shooting her to death behind the bar. This sociopathic conduct should not be permissible anywhere. But the state of Wyoming chose to protect the legal right to kill wildlife with snowmobiles2 in its only official response.
If Wyoming and other states in the Northern Rockies where “wolf whacking” (running wolves down with snowmobiles) choose not to act, Congress must do what they won’t or can’t. This legislation is a strong step in that direction. It would criminalize “wolf whacking” on lands managed by the Department of Interior. Again, it has bipartisan support and the backing numerous conservation and animal welfare organizations.
Congress should act to prevent this and similar anti-conservation acts of violence by passing the Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act promptly–before snow falls again in the Northern Rockies and more wolves and coyotes are senselessly slaughtered. Please ask your U.S. Representative to support this legislation.
Sincerely,
Susan Holmes
Executive Director
Endangered Species Coalition
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1. https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/fight-for-justice-protecting-wolves-like-theia-from-brutalities-in-wyoming
2. https://www.buffalobulletin.com/news/article_e1d48b10-80fa-11ef-bc53-4387e0d8430b.html
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