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Article: Judge Reinstates Endangered Species Act Protections for Wolves
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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The Natural Resources Defense Council issued the following news release:
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana issued a preliminary injunction today reinstating Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies. Conservation groups had sued the government, arguing that delisting the wolves was premature and that allowing the indiscriminate killing of wolves risked putting wolves back on the brink of extinction. The following is a statement by Louisa Willcox of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): "The federal court just offered a badly needed lifeline to wolves in the Northern Rockies," said Louisa Willcox of the Natural Resources ...