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Related: About this forumGray wolves get lucky
Some gray wolves to be returned to endangered list
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) A federal judge on Friday threw out an Obama administration decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list a decision that will ban further wolf hunting and trapping in three states.
The order affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the combined population is estimated at around 3,700. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped federal protections from those wolves in 2012 and handed over management to the states.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday the removal was "arbitrary and capricious" and violated the federal Endangered Species Act.
Unless overturned, her decision will block the states from scheduling additional hunting and trapping seasons for the predators. All three have had at least one hunting season since protections were lifted, while Minnesota and Wisconsin also have allowed trapping. More than 1,500 Great Lakes wolves have been killed, said Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, which filed a lawsuit that prompted Howell's ruling.
"We are pleased that the court has recognized that the basis for the delisting decision was flawed, and would stop wolf recovery in its tracks," Lovvorn said.
The order affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the combined population is estimated at around 3,700. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped federal protections from those wolves in 2012 and handed over management to the states.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday the removal was "arbitrary and capricious" and violated the federal Endangered Species Act.
Unless overturned, her decision will block the states from scheduling additional hunting and trapping seasons for the predators. All three have had at least one hunting season since protections were lifted, while Minnesota and Wisconsin also have allowed trapping. More than 1,500 Great Lakes wolves have been killed, said Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, which filed a lawsuit that prompted Howell's ruling.
"We are pleased that the court has recognized that the basis for the delisting decision was flawed, and would stop wolf recovery in its tracks," Lovvorn said.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Great-Lakes-wolves-ordered-returned-to-endangered-5968992.php
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Gray wolves get lucky (Original Post)
pscot
Dec 2014
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truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)1. Thank Dog for Judge Howell...
will this ruling affect the western wolf populations at all? Idaho, Wyoming and Montana need to be reined in too.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)2. I hope this is part of a trend.
Last spring the Dept decided to revoke Wyoming's management agreement which stopped hunting of wolves there too. Now if they will do the same for Mt and ID, it will be a good thing.
Thanks for posting.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)3. Great news for the wolves....
... not so much for the small-dicked sadists that liked to kill them...
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. And there are millions of atavistic morons
who think murdering a wolf will put lead in their pencils.