Mule Deer Fanatic

The Arizona Deer Association is organizing an effort to prevent further wolf expansion in the state of Arizona. Please lend your support.

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The wolf people, including groups like the Humane Society of the United States, PETA, the Sierra Club, and Defenders of Wildlife, want to do away with Elk and Deer hunting, want to expand the wolf population in Arizona to include all Elk and Deer habitat across the central part of the state as well as north of the Grand Canyon.  The maps they are using overlay, almost perfectly, all the Elk and Deer habitat in the state.  These groups will stop at nothing and have authored many articles without telling the whole story and consequences of expanding the wolf recovery range.  Look how long it took Montana, Wyoming and Idaho to begin hunting wolves and now they are back in court spending millions of dollars fighting the wolf people that want the hunting to stop, even though, from the beginning it was always part of the recovery plan.  We don’t need this in Arizona. 

Please take a few minutes and protect our Elk and Deer hunting here in Arizona.  

Send an email to mexwolf@azgfd.gov or mail it to Mexican Wolf Project, Attn: Terry Johnson, 5000 W. Carefree Highway, Phoenix, AZ. 85086.

We have until June 25^th to comment.

Points to include in your comments:

• • Sportsmen have paid to bring back wildlife, including elk and bighorn sheep to the State and want to maintain them.
  • The current drought situation has kept our elk, deer and cattle herds low and in many cases dwindling and any expansion of the wolf population or wolf recovery area could decimate them.
  • Protection of our hunting heritage is extremely important for the continuation of Arizona’s wildlife management programs.
  • The current wolf program has failed to meet its objectives.  To expand it will only compound the problem.
  • I would not like to see any expansion of the current wolf population.