Gray Wolves Temporarily Put Back on Endangered List
Gray wolves in the US Rocky Mountains are back on the endangered species list after four months unlisted. The US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) decreed in March that the wolf population, in the western states of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, no longer needed federal oversight. Wolf control passed to the states, which made plans to open hunting season on the predators this fall. Environmental groups sued. In a recent finding, a judge sided with the environmentalists, temporarily putting wolves back on the list until the court case is finished. Gray wolves are still considered endangered in the rest of the continental U.S., except in a region around the Great Lakes.
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