I am aghast at their underhanded tactics and at their "reasoning."

They must be stopped.

He is in charge of the USDA, which runs the "Wildlife Services", which uses radio collars to track down the wolf packs and shoots them from helicopters.

I was unable to find an e-mail address for Secretary Vilsack.
However, I'm posting the address of the USDA and the telephone number of USDA's "Information Hot-line" at the bottom of the OP

(If enough of us call and/or write to him, perhaps he will do something about this insane killing of endangered gray wolves in OUR Clearwater National Forest)

I'm enraged.

Thank you, thank you for posting this.

I will post any information I get about a new Petition To Secretary Vilsack To Stop the Idaho Wolf Slaughter in this forum.

Besides contacting Tom Vilsack, leaving phone messages for President Obama, Mrs. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden and others at the White House might help as well.
(It certainly can't hurt)

White House Contact Info:
Telephone: (Comments) 202-456-1111
Telephone: (Switchboard) 202-456-1414

Probably the best way to contact the White House is by e-mail
Click on "Send an e-mail" at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

They get lots of taxpayer $$ to do it too. There is a movement and a lawsuit to have that agency disbanded as there is too much corruption and underhanded activity going on at Wildlife Services (a div of Dept of Ag; APHIS). They are too abusive to wildlife and they bully state legislatures to give them blank checks to do whatever it is they choose to do... with NO OVESIGHT.

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Clearly, a terrible situation.

from Defenders of Wildlife Assoc. What can they and orgs like this do to stop this horrible slaughter?

Wonder why these assholes want to turn the area into an elk farm. Trophies for their walls?

and they are blaming the wolves in the Clearwater National Forest for the decline in Elk populations, (The wolves are not the reason for the decline in the Elk population)

As far as "What can they do?"
Both The Defenders of Wildlife and The Humane Society of the United States are trying to help the Idaho wolves.
Other groups such as The Center for Biological Diversity are also trying to help stop the federal "Wildlife Services" (USDA) from shooting the wolves from helicopters.

I will be spending the next 2 hours contacting these and other animal rights groups and suggesting that they coordinate their efforts on a new Petition To USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop the Idaho wolf slaughter.

The White House "We The People" Petition process is the best, IMO, and I will be asking these groups to "pool their resources" and create a brand new Petition to Secretary Vilsack to end the shooting of all Idaho wolves.

As far as I know, there are no current petitions for this "Lolo Zone" wolf slaughter to stop; so I will be trying to convince the 3 animal rights groups I just mentioned to "coordinate" and start a new "We The People" Petition, which will have to get 100,000 signatures within 30 days in order for the White House to have to respond to it.

Meanwhile, we all can contact Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and urge others to do so as well.

Keep us posted on your progress and when the petition is up.

Good luck!

I will post a new OP as soon as the new Petition To Save The Idaho Wolves is created.

I'm now thinking that a Petition To President Obama might be better than a Petition to Vilsack

President Obama, with a stroke of his pen, can put the gray wolf back on the Endangered Species List, which would stop the "Wildlife Services" from continuing to shoot these beautiful, intelligent animals from federal helicopters.