The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists are at war over the agency’s latest plan to strip gray wolves of their federal protections and turn management of the often-reviled predators over to states and tribes.
A proposal to strip gray wolves of federal protections could limit their expansion across the U.S. West and Great Lakes.
His organization doesn’t oppose state management of wolves, but it does oppose hunting wolves for sport, he said. “Free-for-all hunting of wolves is not management, it’s slaughter.” The prospect of removing wolf protections aroused rage yet again earlier this month when the Fish and Wildlife Serviceas"one of the greatest comebacks for an animal in U.S. conservation history,” a characterization that some conservation groups called misguided and premature.
It pointed out, for instance, that in November, “Americans were heartbroken” by the killing of the famous Yellowstone black wolf, Spitfire, by a trophy hunter in Montana. At stake is a federal recovery program designed to bring gray wolves back to the top of the food chain in much of the nation's public lands. With wolf packs now loping through a patchwork of forests from Michigan to Lassen County, Calif., significant repercussions are being recorded throughout the region’s wildlife hierarchy.
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