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Article: Gray wolves' `de-listing' is hailed as big success story; Back from the brink of extinction, the wolves in the Upper Midwest are off the endangered species list.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 30, 2007
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Byline: Bob von Sternberg; Staff Writer
They're back.
The federal government made it official Monday: Gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan have bounced back so successfully from the brink of extinction that they no longer need the protection of the endangered species list.
In announcing the "de-listing" of the wolves, Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett called the move "a major success story for conservation achieved under the Endangered Species Act. ... We have saved this icon of the wilderness. We recognize the comeback of the wolf."
Although the move by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a symbolic milestone environmentally, it does ...