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Article: Gray wolves may lose US protected status; A U.S. proposal to delist wolves as 'endangered' would put them back in hunters' line of fire, critics say.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Viewed on a chart, the population of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies - Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming - has exploded in recent decades from about a dozen to more than 1,200 today. But is that enough to consider wolves back from the brink of extinction, another species success story like the bald eagle?
In Washington this week, Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett said wolves in the Northern Rockies "are biologically ready to be delisted," meaning they would no longer need to be protected under federal law.
After a century of shooting, trapping, and poisoning that had ...