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Article: Gray Wolf Makes Remarkable Recovery
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- July 11, 2000
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H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-11-2000
Gray Wolf Makes Remarkable Recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calling their recovery an extraordinary success story, the Interior Department on Tuesday proposed reducing the protection of gray wolves across virtually all of their range from Maine to the Northwest by reclassifying them as threatened, instead of endangered.
The only exception would be the Mexican gray wolf population in the Southwest which would remain endangered as its numbers grow under a reintroduction program that was begun only two years ago, the department said.
The decision to reduce protection of the wolf under the Endangered Species Act brought mixed response ...