Feds again propose delisting of wolvesYou may have seen the story in today?s Duluth News Tribune and online at
www.duluthnewstribune.com that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided ? again ? to propose removing the timber wolf from the Endangered Species List in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan?s Upper Peninsula. The proposal was prompted in part by petitions from both Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed delisting before, but the process was on hold because of law suits.
Below, you?ll find the News Tribune story on the proposed delisting, written by my colleague John Myers. You?ll also find a statement issued today by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank.
HERE IS JOHN?S STORY:
By: John Myers, Duluth News Tribune
// The federal government is ready to try again to take wolves off the endangered species list in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan?s Upper Peninsula.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a proposal in the Federal Register today calling for public comment on its plan to delist wolves and hand their management back to state and tribal wildlife officials.
Today?s proposal is a response to four petitions that demanded the federal agency take action to end federal protections for wolves in the region.
?We find that the petitions present substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that removing the gray wolf in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan from the list may be warranted,?? the response notes.
The federal response is not surprising because the government has tried three times to delist wolves, only to be thwarted by legal action.
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