rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/stop-wolf-poaching?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-stop-wolf-poaching' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> NARN https://actionnetwork.org/groups/narn https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/192/511/normal/TAKE_ACTION_FOR_WOLVES.png Washington wildlife officials continue to fail wolves at every level. Back in February, WDFW staff came across 4 poisoned wolves near the Canadian border, yet waited until months later to launch an investigation. And to make matter worse, at the last Fish & Wildlife Commission meeting where wolf rulemaking was supposed to occur, Commissioners asked staff about these rumors that had been floating around for months about an ongoing wolf poaching ring, to which they were immediately shut down from speaking about the issue publicly by Vice Chair Linville and she demanded that such a conversation be taken offline, out of the public view. “For the last few years, the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) has been critical of wolf recovery efforts in Washington because these efforts have been wrought with politics every step of the way,” says Rachel Bjork, NARN’s president. “The fact that we are just now hearing about these wolf deaths months later, and not directly from WDFW, leads us to believe that the department has no real interest in accountability to the public.” Please read the full press statement from NARN and partnering groups here. Please take a moment to write to Governor Inslee's office, to the WA Fish & Wildlife Commission, the WDFW Director and the Wolf Policy Coordinator to voice your outrage at them withholding transparency from the public and co-Commissioners of the detriment to wolves. Using our voices, together we can protect wolves in Washington. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-wolf-poaching