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Article: Gray wolf to lose protection of Endangered Species Act; The population of 4,000 gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan is considered stable.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 16, 2006
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Byline: Dennis Anderson; Staff Writer
Interior Secretary Gale Norton is expected to announce today a plan to remove the gray wolf in Minnesota from protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and return its management to the Department of Natural Resources.
Wolves in Wisconsin and Michigan likely will be removed from the ESA also, under the new federal plan.
An earlier attempt by the federal government to reclassify the gray wolf throughout much of the nation as threatened instead of endangered, and to de-list the wolf altogether from protection in some states, was thrown out by federal courts in Vermont and Oregon.
Minnesota has ...