Grey Wolves Removed From ESL

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The Obama daministration has removed grey wolves in eight states from the endangered species list.

BILLINGS, Mont. – The Obama administration on Wednesday announced it is lifting endangered species act protections for 5,500 gray wolves in eight states in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes.

The move essentially draws the line on the predators' rapid expansion over the last two decades. Public hunts for hundreds of wolves already are planned this fall in Idaho and Montana, and Interior Department officials said Wednesday that the most suitable wolf habitat already is occupied.

Conservationists have hailed the animal's recovery from near extinction last century as a landmark achievement that should be extended to the Pacific Northwest and New England.

But the federal wolf program has stirred a backlash from agriculture and sporting groups angry over wolf attacks on livestock and big game herds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/...us_gray_wolves

i think the restoration of grey wolves into New England is and idea whose time has come: Trap about half of those de-listed wolves and ship them off to New England now. i' send a letter to the white house today demanding that this be done ASAP.

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Cool... It was pure folly to reintroduce them in the lower 48. I don't think they were ever endangered elsewhere. There has always been a "healthy" population of wolves in Alaska and Canada.

I clicked the thread thinking "Gray Wolves removed from ESL?.... I knew that East St. Louis had a gang problem. Must be a bunch of really old Bikers..."

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Western lawmakers attached a rider to the federal budget bill mandating the move for 1,300 wolves in the Northern Rockies. The rider blocked legal challenges and marked the first time Congress has stripped a species of protections. Protections for those wolves are to be lifted effective with a Thursday notice in the Federal Register.

Good piece of work right there. It's an act of congress the wolf huggers can't appeal.

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Here's the story in one of our newspapers. Although it's good news, I'm not happy with Mn's. plans. They don't intend to open a season here for at least five years, and we have the largest wolf population in the lower 48.

Opps, don't bother with my link, it's the same story posted above, guess I should have read it before I posted mine

http://www.startribune.com/local/121253004.html

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THis means that Wisconsin should have a wolf season, or allow wolf trapping, within a couple of years.

They were discussing doing so as soon as the wolves were de-listed the first time. I wouldn't mind going wolf hunting. Something to try for besides small game and deer.