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Article: Gray Wolf Loses Some of Its Protected Status.
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- March 19, 2003
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By Brent Israelsen, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 19--Some advice to the wolves of Utah: Go south.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on Tuesday loosened federal protection for the wolf in the northern half of the state, but it kept the highest classification of "endangered" for the southern half.
The decision -- likely to be challenged in court by environmentalists -- was part of a nationwide rule that "downlisted" the wolf's protected status in much of the United States.
It comes as the agency plans to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list altogether.
And although ...