The US has removed gray wolves off of the endangered list. The US government is removing 1,300 wolves off of the endangered list in the Rocky mountain regions. They are also looking to remove wolves off of the endangered list in the western Great Lakes region because they believe they have recovered to a healthy population.
Hunting of these animals will resume in Idaho, Montanta, parts of Utah, Oregon and Washington. They will still be protected in Wyoming as the state still needs a management plan on their population of the wolves.
This has been a legal battle since 2008 since the Fish and Wildlife service took steps to remove the wolves off of the endangered list. An annex was added to the disputed budget bill last month, removing the wolves from federal protection. This makes it the first time Congress has been involved in the removing of an animal from the endangered species list.
I can't say that I like this article, but its sort of sad. We worked so hard to re grow the almost non existent population of the gray wolf and now we want to go back to hunting it. I obviously understand we have to in order to keep the population under control. They are extremely beautiful creatures though.
article:http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-gray-wolf-endangered.html
That is great. I am glad that their are people taking aniciative for endangered animals. We are the main reason most of them are endangered in the first place. Having wolves healthy in population may push scientists to keep trying to help more endangered species.
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