ynp4me took the time to gather information about who to contact in Wyoming. It was sent as a comment, but due to the work involved, I am moving it to a post.
Ralph Maughan
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I made a quick list of people to contact for Yellowstone.net and then thought I’d add this here too! ~ Vicky
Send letters, make calls, etc about the Wyoming Wolf Killings!
It is very easy to see Yellowstone and avoid spending money or giving tax money $ to Wyoming. Don’t buy any gas in Wyoming or Yellowstone. Fill up with gas everyday in Montana or Idaho.
Lodging in the park creates tax money for Wyoming. Consider lodging outside of YNP. Let Xanterra know why you change your reservations. There is lodging in Montana in the gateway towns of West Yellowstone, Gardiner, Jardine, Silver Gate, and Cooke City.
Buy all trinkets, t-shirts and such in Montana gateway towns.
It will save you money (usually same items but are less expensive than in the park and in towns with resort tax- it’s less than WY tax).
Contact Wyoming Congressional Delegation
Reach out to Wyoming’s congressional delegation about federal legislation and other important issues.
Senator Mike Enzi
http://enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Home
Senator John Barrasso
http://barrasso.senate.gov/public
Representative Barbara Cubin (notice her Yellowstone graphics)
http://www.house.gov/cubin
Contact the Governor Freudenthal
By Mail:
State Capitol
200 West 24th Street
Cheyenne, WY 82002-0010
By Phone or Fax:
307.777.7434 (phone)
307.632.3909 (fax)
EMAIL form http://governor.wy.gov/contact-dave/default.html
SUBLETTE County Commisioner
http://www.wyo-wcca.org/msublete.htm
PINEDALE ROUNDUP
(the other newspaper besides Pinedale online)
219 E. Pine St., Suite 116 (Summit Building),
P.O. Box 100, Pinedale, WY 82941
Phone 307-367-2123
http://www.pinedaleroundup.com/V2_contact_us.php?heading=4
WYOMING FISH & GAME
Customer Service Center at 307-777-4600
or write to:
Wyoming Game and Fish
5400 Bishop Boulevard
Cheyenne, WY 82006
WYOMING TOURISM
Wyoming Travel & Tourism
I-25 at College Drive
Cheyenne, WY 82002
TEL: 307-777-7777
FAX: 307-777-2877
TOLL FREE: 800-225-5996
EMAIL form http://www.wyomingtourism.org/sitetools/contact_us.php
Representatives / Senators
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/email/email.htm
EDITORS of Wyoming PAPERS
http://governor.wy.gov/take-action/editors.html
CODY ENTERPRISE
P.O. Box 1090
3101 Big Horn Ave.
Cody, Wyo. 82414.
Telephone number is (307) 587-2231.
FAX is (307) 587-5208.
E-mail address is office@codyenterprise.com.
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Jackson Hole Daily
1225 Maple Way
P.O. Box 7445
Jackson, Wyo. 83002
Main: 307-733-2047
Editorial Fax: 307-734-1160
Casper Star Tribune
307-266-0500 – 170 Star Lane
Casper, WY 82604
Wyoming RADIO stations
http://governor.wy.gov/take-action/radio.html
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The BILLINGS GAZETTE
EDITORS AND REPORTERS
General Phone: (406) 657-1241
News stories and tips: citynews@billingsgazette.com
Submit a letter online
http://billingsgazette.net/info/?h/letters
Reporters
Ruffin Prevost Cody Bureau 307-527-7250
Brett French Outdoors 406-657-1387
Mike Stark Yellowstone Park/General 406-657-1232
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( stands to lose tourist $$ )
Buffalo Bill Museum
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414
Phone: 307/587-4771
CODY Tourism
list of Wy businesses and places
http://www.codyenterprise.com/tourism
A ban of spending money $$$ in Jackson will get noticed!
JACKSON WYOMING
JACKSON HOLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PO Box 550
Jackson, WY, 83001
call 307-733-3316
fax 307-733-5585
Jackson, WY business listing can be found here
http://www.jacksonholechamber.com
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Looking at the Pinedale Online Page this morning…
Some may consider calling all advertisements
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/#wyomingwolf
and asking them not to support the newspaper
by advertising with them. Most ads are geared
toward tourists… snowmobilers and real estate.
~ V
Comments
Add WGFD Director Terry Cleveland, tcleveland@wgf.state.wy.us
Thanks Robert. This helps a lot.
I have posted the URL for these contacts to the Western Carnivore Conservation List as well.
Spoke with the Tourism Bureau and they suggested contacting their rep to the Governor. His name is Chuck Coon
“chuck.coon@visitwyo.gov”
Making purchases in Montana instead of Wyoming supports the state directly responsible for the largest bison slaughter since the 19th century. Perhaps this is a good year to visit Zion, the Smokies, the Everglades, etc. I can’t think of another national park that actually kills its wildlife to prevent it from leaving.
Pronghorn, you’re exactly right. Perhaps all three states – Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, should be avoided.
Here’s a park I’m madly in love with: Capital Reef, in Utah. Avoid the campground at Fruita and the one in the south; head up to the northern part of the park – and you’ll be rewarded…
Visit Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. It isn’t the largest park, but it is pretty.
Heck, just visit your local national forests… haze a cow!! HA, that was just a joke!!!
If you are already planning on going to YNP do not shop in the gate communities. If you go, camp, and take all your supplies with you, and avoid touristy spots… or stay inside the park… but fill up before you enter Wyoming, Montana or Idaho, then buy gas inside the park.
I am with Mack though, there are so many places to visit.
Maybe we should boycott New Mexico too.
Be sure and tell everyone on the contact list that people come to Wyoming to see wolves, not cows.
I hate to say it, but I’ve contacted the governor of Wyoming to voice my displeasure with his policies—even tried being very diplomatic. I mentioned how I won’t spend ANY money in Wyo. anymore, but used to spend a lot of time and money there. I think he and his legislature are too ignorant or pigheaded to care. Only large scale boycotts and screaming businesses might get their attention.
Calling and writing about why you visit Wyoming should be done! Wyoming understands how much they take in from tourists! A friend of mine suggested sending in copies of our bills from our trips. Show them that we spend money!
The bottom line is, we don’t like Wyoming’s wolf policy and we
need to let them know it!
Thanks for all the e-mail addresses and contact information in Wyoming. I am in the process of sending e-mails to each and every contact listed. This recent killing of Wolf #253, former Druid, is outrageous. I agree with whoever said that it ranks right up there with the killing of Wolf #10 in 1995. Another trigger happy redneck. Another wolf not bothering any livestock. What a shame it is that all the organizations out to stop this slaughter have to wait till the end of this month??? How many more before then??? It really troubles me. I have written that I will no longer spend any money in Wyoming and the only time I will set foot in that state is when I am in Yellowstone.
Is anyone getting any responses frrom these contacts. I know when I contact officials in my state I at least get acknowledgement that they will consider my concerns. I haven’t recieved anything back from these Yahoos. Even when I called Barbara Cubins office, all I got was an uh huh.
You won’t get much response unless you are their constituent.
One place that might very well care is the Committee on Natural Resources in the US House. You might have seen the article on the GAO’s condemnation of the bison slaughter today. The GAO did the investigation at the request of this committee. The General Accounting Office is an investigative arm of the Congress.
This House committee (Natural Resources) has jurisdiction over the Department of Interior, and they are generally friendly since the 2006 election.
The phone number given at their web site is (202) 226-9019
Web site http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php Note that the GAO report on bison is the committee’s headline story today on their web site.
As I stated above…
Some may consider calling all advertisements
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/#wyomingwolf
and asking them not to support the newspaper
by advertising with them. Most ads are geared
toward tourists… snowmobilers and real estate.
Seems the Editor of Pinedale Online does not like the idea of us calling her advertisers!
Pinedale Online is where CAT posts her wolf info…
clipped….
We were quite appalled to read in a wolf worship blog recently asking his readers to call our local newspaper’s advertisers and ask them to not advertise with the paper because he doesn’t like Cat’s style of reporting on wolf activity here. While we certainly respect anyone’s right to a different opinion, this blogger is confused on some of his facts. We want to clarify that Pinedale Online is not a part of either of our local newspapers. We are completely separate business entities and our content is entirely on the Web. We are proud to sponsor Cat Urbigkit and Wolf Watch on Pinedale Online, and we are entirely responsible for the content that appears on our website and on Cat’s Wolf Watch section. We are proud that we are able to provide our content for free and not charge our readers a subscription fee to get access to our stories. Readers who don’t like what is printed in a newspaper can stop buying and reading that newspaper. Readers who don’t like what appears on our website are certainly welcome to move on and get their wolf news from other websites. If Cat’s Wolf Watch is your ongoing source for finding out about the wolf happenings in our area, we hope you appreciate the time and research she puts into each story to get that news out to you.
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/#wolfcomments
~ Vicky
Greetings!
I was just looking at the Gray Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains website
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/wolf and saw that they are discontinuing the interagency weekly wolf reports.
Each state will have their own wolf information:
ID http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/wildlife/wolves
MT http://fwp.mt.gov/wildthings/wolf/default.html
WY http://gf.state.wy.us/services/education/wolves/index.asp
OR http://www.dfw.state.or.us/wolves
WA http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/soc/gray_wolf
UT http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/wolf
~ V
Wyoming Wolf Report
For the week ending 4/4/2008
http://gf.state.wy.us/downloads/pdf/wolfreport/wolf_report_4-4-2008.pdf
~ V
I am calling Xanterra on Monday and cancelling my reservations, I am also sending a letter to every one of the above mentioned contacts.
Where do the Native Americans in Wyoming stand on this?
Perhaps we should start writing to them too.
Here are a few more places to contact in regards to getting the word out about the Wyoming Wolf Policy. You may wish to express concern about the Sublette County, Wyoming elk feeding grounds issues as well.
Please write letter and make calls that detail your concerns about the WY wolf policy in a clear and peaceful manner.
Newslink – http://newslink.org
CNN News – http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form11b.html?2
USA Today
http://asp.usatoday.com/marketing/feedback/feedback-online.aspx?type=4
New York Times
executive-editor@nytimes.com
managing-editor@nytimes.com
The Newsroom at the New York Times
news-tips@nytimes.com;
foreign@nytimes.com
hremetro@nytimes.com;
national@nytimes.com
MSNBC
letters@msnbc.com
viewerservices@msnbc.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4925877/site/newsweek/?contact
Readers Digest
Contact the editors http://www.rd.com/talktous.do?lid=98
Propose an article http://www.rd.com/articleproposal.do?lid=97
Contact Readers Digest Main – http://www.rd.com/rdcom-home/contact-us/article27604.html
MOTHER EARTH NEWS
http://www.motherearthnews.com/help/contact-by-email.aspx
ORION MAGAZINE
http://www.orionmagazine.org
The Orion Society
187 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA
01230
413-528-4422
Time Magazine – letters@time.com
U.S. News and World Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/usinfo/infomain.htm
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Address to Dale Hall National Director
Dale_Hall@FWS.gov
Director – phone (202) 208-4717
fax(202)208-6965
USFWS Region 6 – Mountain-Prairie –
CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, UT, WY
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 25486 DFC
Denver, Colorado 80225
Regional Director (
phone (303) 236-7920
fax (303) 236-8295
Newly added…
Wolf Comments at the Pinedale Online website
Send yours in!
http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2008/04/WolfComments.htm
Please note: WGFD Director Terry Cleveland’s email address is the following:
Terry.Cleveland@wgf.state.wy.us