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Article: U.S. to take gray wolf off endangered species list Environmentalists plan fight to protect animal
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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Gray wolves will be removed from the list of threatened and
endangered species in the western Great Lakes, including Wisconsin,
and portions of the northern Rocky Mountain states, the Obama
administration announced Friday.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar upheld a January decision by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the wolf.
"The recovery of the gray wolf throughout significant portions of
its historic range is one of the great success stories of the
Endangered Species Act," Salazar said in a statement. "When it was
listed as endangered in 1974, the wolf had almost disappeared from
the continental United States. Today, we have more than 5,500
wolves, including more than 1,600 in ...