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Article: Interior proposes lifting protection for gray wolf outside of the West.
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- July 16, 2004
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H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
07-16-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Interior Department is proposing to lift endangered-species protection for the gray wolf across much of the country, although the animals will remain "threatened" and shielded by federal law in the West, officials said.
Interior Secretary Gale Norton planned to make the announcement Friday in Minnesota, which has the largest U.S. wolf population outside Alaska. She will later visit a wildlife sanctuary in Wisconsin, where the wolves have been on the rebound as well.
The proposal calls for taking the gray wolf, which was nearly extinct in the lower 48 states in the 1950s, out from under federal ...