{"id":428,"date":"2007-06-25T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=428"},"modified":"2007-06-25T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T01:08:58","slug":"steve-pearce-nm-would-eliminate-funding-for-the-southwest-wolf-reintroduction-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Steve Pearce (NM) would eliminate funding for the southwest wolf reintroduction program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"highlight\">An amendment expected to be offered tomorrow by Representative Steve Pearce (NM) would eliminate funding for the southwest wolf reintroduction program &#8212; completely ending the program and dooming the wolves to extinction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the vote, Pearce and his anti-wolf allies have even stooped to spreading misinformation about the southwest wolf recovery program, circulating factually inaccurate reports of wolf attacks. At a recent hearing on the Endangered Species Act, Pearce even made the outrageous statement that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing is more attractive to a wolf than the sound of a crying baby.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, there is not one documented case of a healthy, wild wolf killing a human in the United States. In fact, you are more likely to be killed by a meteorite than a wild wolf.    <\/p>\n<p>Please call Representative Pearce in Washington DC:  (202) 225-2365.  Take action right now to save Southwest wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Please take just a few moments right now to help save this beautiful symbol of the American Southwest. [from nmwild.org] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amendment expected to be offered tomorrow by Representative Steve Pearce (NM) would eliminate funding for the southwest wolf reintroduction program &#8212; completely ending the program and dooming the wolves to extinction. In preparation for the vote, Pearce and his anti-wolf allies have even stooped to spreading misinformation about the southwest wolf recovery program, circulating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Pearce (NM) would eliminate funding for the southwest wolf reintroduction program<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}