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Article: Gray wolf delisting is challenged Wildlife groups say move is premature
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2009
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The Humane Society of the United States and other wildlife
protection groups say they will challenge a decision by the federal
government to remove the gray wolf from protections of the
Endangered Species Act.
The groups said it was premature to delist the wolf, saying that
wolves have returned to only parts of the Great Lakes states and
that the states need to produce sound management plans before
protections are removed.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said last month that the agency
was sticking with a decision of the Bush administration to remove
the wolf from the Endangered Species list in the western Great
Lakes, including Wisconsin, and portions of the northern Rocky
Mountains.
There ...