What does a budget bill have to do with killing wolves?
Absolutely nothing.
But hatred of these animals has become so out of control that the gray wolf will become the first creature ever taken off the U.S. endangered species list by an act of Congress, rather than by scientific review, under legislation sent to the White House on Thursday. IT’S TIME TO UNITE PRO-WOLFERS! WRITE YOUR STATE SENATORS AND DEMAND THEY TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE KILLING OF OVER ONE THOUSAND WOLF FAMILIES, INCLUDING PUPS.
The Associated Press reports the following,
“BILLINGS, Mont. – Federal wildlife officials say they will take more than 1,300 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list within 60 days.
An attachment to the budget bill signed into law Friday by President Barack Obama strips protections from wolves in five Western states.
It marks the first time Congress has taken a species off the endangered list.
Idaho and Montana plan public wolf hunts this fall. Hunts last year were canceled after a judge ruled the predators remained at risk.
Protections remain in place for wolves in Wyoming because of its shoot-on-sight law for the predators.
There are no immediate plans to hunt the small wolf populations in Oregon and Washington. No packs have been established in Utah.”
The Wolf Preservation Blog 
Not only is this a devastating below to science-based wolf recovery efforts in the Northern Rockies, but it is a clear assault on the Endangered Species Act. The ESA should be based on science, not politics. It is not up to the senate to decide which species should or should not be protected. Because of this, the next thing you know big business will be paying off corrupt politicians to destroy any animal they find inconvenient. This anti-wolf bill is also unconstitutional as it violates people’s rights to contest it in the courts. Wolves and the ESA just so one scumbag democratic senator (Tester) can get re-elected?
”Congress has never previously overridden the Endangered Species Act to remove a species from the endangered list. The rider could easily have been stopped by Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House, but instead they… used it as a political bargaining chip in a last-minute deal designed to help Tester get re-elected in 2012. Tester, who is one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the upcoming elections, has cynically decided to engage in a wolf-hating contest with his Republican opponent in a bid for conservative votes.”
I am sorry, but I cannot stand Obama now. Obama is the one who appointed Salazar and Salazar is not pro-wildlife or pro-environment. Obama wanted the anti-wolf / anti-ESA in the budget just so Tester gets re-elected. It is Obama’s fault in the first place that the senate & house recently got infested with too many republicans. If Obama was not so stupid, democrats would not have to worry about Tester in the first place. Obama pissed off too many independents by going overboard with a bunch of bullshit. We did not have a problem with too many republicans being in congress when Obama was elected. I am sorry, but I can NOT vote for Obama again. Politicians need to learn not to stab their own supporters in the back!! So, the Obama administration will now be remembered as the one who destroyed the ESA. They only cater to special interests and big buisness!
i hate the fact that they are doing this. what have we come to killing the poor animal because of haters. that is so wrong