"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not issue a nationwide recovery plan for gray wolves, it announced this week. The plan was slated to be launched in December of this year.
In the announcement, the Service stated that “[b]oth listed gray wolf entities are no longer in need of conservation under the Act due to recovery. We therefore conclude that recovery plans for these two entities would not promote their conservation.”
Endangered Species Act protections currently apply to gray wolves in 45 states, but the Northern Rocky Mountain population, which includes wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, is exempt from the rule.
The Center for Biological Diversity has called the decision “a disappointing and dangerous policy reversal by the Trump administration.”
“I’m appalled that Trump wants to strip gray wolves of federal protections and turn their management over to states that are dead set on killing them,” said Collette Adkins, senior attorney and Carnivore Conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Courts have repeatedly made it clear that our country’s gray wolves have not recovered in places like the southern Rocky Mountains and West Coast. We’ll challenge the Trump administration’s unlawful decision to once again abandon wolf recovery, and we’ll win.”"
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