Tell your U.S. senators: No more wolf hunts.

U.S. senators,

In the 1900s, wolves were hunted to the brink of extinction in the Lower 48 states. It was only thanks to the Endangered Species Act, and immense amounts of hard work by conservationists, that the gray wolf was brought back in the Northern Rockies and Upper Midwest.

Even today, there are only a few thousand wolves, roaming a tiny fraction of their historic range. That precarious population is already threatened by radically expanded hunting and trapping in states like Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

I'm urging you to reject the anti-wolf policy rider that was attached to the House's Interior Appropriations Bill. Decisions about protecting endangered species should be made based on the best available science, by professionals -- not turned into a political football and slipped into unrelated legislation.

Sincerely,