THIS PHOTO IS OF JOSH BRANSFORD, PLEASED WITH THE SCENE GOING ON BEHIND HIM. Feel free to contact him at 23 HC 1 #23 Elk City, ID 83525, 208-842-2925, jbransford@fs.fed.us (however, do not threaten him, as we don’t want to stoop that low).
“Photos of dead and maimed wolves recently posted online have started a firestorm of controversy over renewed hunting and trapping of the once federally protected animals.
Environmental Action, a national environmental organization founded in 1970 that helped push for passage of the Endangered Species Act decades ago, has been leading an online campaign to build support for protecting wolves again. But this week they took their campaign, including grisly photos of bloodied and trapped wolves, to the streets of Washington, D.C., to provoke a response from politicians and regulators.
“Letting wolves be hunted and killed again was a political decision made by shallow political interests,” explained Director Drew Hudson. “We need to confront shallow politics with the real, gut-wrenching photos of what this policy means—that an iconic American species important to our ecosystems and our vision of the west is being brutally hunted to extinction, again. Anyone who can look at these photos and do nothing is a coward, or worse a politician.”
The advertisement was funded by dozens of small donors who chipped in online after signing a petition to the President and Congress asking them to re-list the wolf as an endangered species.”
*Special thanks to Environmental Action for providing the text in this posting!
The Wolf Preservation Blog 
This is the kind of high impact grass roots effort that is needed to turn the tide of public opinion and thus political will. Confronting these monkey-suit wearing Washingtonian politicos with the results of their ill-informed and thoughtless decisions is a critical step in changing their choices going forward. Great work. Let’s work on more of the same initiatives until the world can’t deny the slaughter Salazar and his state government cronies have condoned as a result of their ass kissing to the special interests!