To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Stop the US Fish and Wildlife from De-Listing wolves

I am a Natural Resource Sustainability scientist. I am also a Native American mixed woman. Much of what science is learning today, Native Americans have known for tens of thousands of years. Many decisions our government makes, with respect to ecosystems are not optimal decisions due to budget constraints. As A Native American NR scientist my colleagues and I know that monitoring, adaptation, tolerance and connection to ALL native species continues to benefit ecosystems while working with the US Fish and Wildlife, Forestry, and USDA agencies. I am so discouraged that our voices continue to be silenced when it comes to wolves, as well as the voices of other scientists. I watched the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PFKtMzra7c in which Dr. Vucetich elaborates about the the ESA and his pinpointing the bias against wolves by the Fish & Wildlife Service. As a Native American Natural Resource Sustainability scientist I would like to add that the USFW is also committing cultural rights discrimination against the First Peoples of the Americas. When the USFW claims that human intolerance is a mitigating factor in de-listing wolves, what they really mean is the WHITE human intolerance of wolves. The same WHITE human intolerance that created the extinction of American wolves. THAT is a crime. The government favoring WHITE hunters over all else is not new as we see on the Senate entrance of the Capital building in DC where there is a carving pediment. The name of that Pediment is "Progress of Civilization" http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8687615894_0c494ee096_z.jpg. The sculptor, Thomas Crawford, “envisioned as the fate of the first Americans, a grave near which a despondent Indian Chief, Indian mother, and Indian child await the inevitable advance of the WHITE woodsman and WHITE hunter, harbingers of WHITE progress and Indian doom” (Wilbur R. Jacobs 1980 from American Indian Environments page 70) White hunters have a voice in this issue but not Tribes or scientists....The world should be screaming in the streets, we must protect our federally protected wolves by stopping the USFW

Why is this important?

The USFW is trying to de-list federally protected wolves which are only about 15% reintroduced to their former habitat range, breaking the mission statement and purpose of the Endangered Species Act. One of the main mitigating factors the USFW cites is the "human intolerance" towards wolves. This said intolerance is the job of the USFW and ESA to remedy. Killing wolves because of "human intolerance" weakens the ESA and opens up trophy hunting to all endangered species hunters deem "human intolerant".