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| 0000055ff7b3ef6672e36bca64cc81315d3780ba03ac94e6b6a8df73962de760 | Please accept my comments on the Proposed Rule, "National Wildlife Refuge System: Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health." My husband and I have studied wolves in Yellowstone for many years and understand the importance of large native carnivores. The story of the wolf population comeback completely proves this. To save ourselves we must work harder to save the species that balance our world. I fully support the protection of native carnivores on national refuge system lands. The FWS needs to strengthen the rule by explicitly prohibiting the killing of all native carnivores under the rule’s “predator control” provision. Currently the provision prohibits carnivore killing that would “alter predator-prey population dynamics,” leaving it unclear if individual animals could still be targeted, including at the behest of livestock interests. The rule should also remove loopholes (e.g. fulfilling refuge purposes and pursuing biological goals), particularly in Wilderness. The rule contemplates a range of trammeling activities (e.g. interventions, active adaptation and manipulation measures, and species “translocations”) that fundamentally undermine wilderness protection, threaten the future of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and come with a host of potential unintended consequences. The rule should make clear that these trammeling actions and their associated activities—helicopter intrusions, structures, installations, motorized travel and equipment—are not appropriate in Wilderness. Thank you. | 1 | a7bbca98ce6b3bd397332ca5d4d73215e461ddc72a69207a28aed4a118baa794 |