Hope you can join us on August 7-9, 2015 at the historic Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana for Speak for Wolves!
Friday August 7
- 6:00pm doors open with music by Neil Haverstick.
- 7:00pm Screening of OR-7 the Journey with filmmaker Clemens Schenk. Amaroq Weiss of the Center for Biological Diversity will be part of the Q&A session following the film. Tickets cost $10 and can be bought online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1634194. They can also be purchased at the door-cash only.
Saturday August 8
- 11:30am doors open.
- 12:00pm opening remarks.
- 12:30pm Kim Wheeler, Executive Director of the Red Wolf Coalition, will discuss the plight of red wolves and the USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program.
- 2:00pm activist Oliver Starr will discuss the reasons for the sharp decline in gray wolf populations in Denali National Park in Alaska and offer remedies.
- 3:00pm Brian Ertz, founder and Board President of Wildlands Defense, will discuss the failure of the controversial McKittrick Policy and why it needs to be reformed.
BREAK
- 6:30pm doors open with live music by Matt Stone.
- 7:00pm Camilla Fox, founder and Executive Director of Project Coyote, will discuss current efforts to end wildlife killing contests on public and private lands. A panel discussion will follow with Amaroq Weiss, West Coast Wolf Organizer of the Center for Biological Diversity, Kevin Bixby, founder and Executive Director of the Southwest Environmental Center, and author/ecologist George Wuerthner.
The entire program on Saturday is free.
Sunday August 9
- 9:00am doors open with music by Goodshield Aguilar.
- 9:30am Mike Mease, co-founder and Board President of Buffalo Field Campaign, will discuss the continued hazing and slaughter of wild buffalo in/around Yellowstone National Park and efforts to list the species under the Endangered Species Act.
- 10:30am Louisa Willcox, wildlife advocate and long-time conservationist, will discuss the government’s ill-conceived push to remove federal protections for grizzly bears and examine the role that states play in wildlife management.
- 11:15am Interpretive dance by choreographer MaryLee Sanders.
- 11:30am Inspirational talk by Jimmy St. Goddard of Blackfeet Nation.
- 12:00pm closing remarks.
The entire program on Sunday is free.
To learn more visit www.speakforwolves.org
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Brett Haverstick
Brett Haverstick is the Education & Outreach Director for Friends of the Clearwater, a public lands advocacy group in Moscow, Idaho. He has a Masters of Natural Resources from the University of Idaho. In his personal time, he manages the project Speak for Wolves. The views expressed here are his own.
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I will be there! This year’s schedule and line-up is pretty impressive. It’s filled with some heavy hitters making a real difference in wildlife management reform. Spend time in the park in the morning, and learn about what the Feds don’t want to talk about in the evening. 🙂
Idahome, where will you be coming from? I’m going also and am in Boise. 3blackdog9@gmail.com
Very happy to hear that you are coming and thank you for supporting the program!
http://protectthewolves.org as well as http://friendsofthewolf.org
It keeps changing protectthewolves.com to .org
We will be coming from Boise….
http://protectthewolves.org as well as http://friendsofthewolf.org
yes, its http://protectthewolves.com