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Article: CONSERVATION GROUP SUPPORTS REMOVING GREAT LAKES WOLVES FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 29, 2007
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The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release:
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced they will be removing the Great Lakes population of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list, demonstrating the successful recovery of this unique species under the Endangered Species Act.
"The Great Lakes gray wolf is a classic Endangered Species Act success story. The protections of the act and careful stewardship by the states in the region have combined to bring this beautiful and critically important creature back from the edge of extinction," said Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife. "This tremendous accomplishment is testimony to ...