Feds seek comments on wolf de-listing

[Liberty Belle]

I will be submitting my comments today. Care to join me?

Feds Seeking Comment On Wolf De-Listing

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public input on the proposal to remove the gray wolf in the western Great Lakes region from the list of threatened and endangered species.

The wolf was first put on the list in 1974, but since that time the population has grown rapidly. In the winter of 2004-2005, at least 405 wolves were counted in the state of Michigan.

Now, Fish and Wildlife wants to know what the public thinks about de-listing the wolf. A 90-day comment period begins when the proposal is published in the Federal Register.

Comments can be submitted three ways:
By email: [email protected]
By letter: Western Great Lakes Wolf Delisting, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Whipple Federal Building, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, MN 55111-4056
By fax: 612-713-5292

Four additional meetings on the wolf will be held this spring. One will be in Marquette on May 16.

March 30, 2006
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=4700022

 

[Jinglebob]

Now, remember to play nice LB. :wink:

 

[Liberty Belle]

I'll try... but when I tell them about the Minnesota wolf accidently killed with a coyote getter just a few miles south of here and the other wolves that have been sighted around the county, my blood pressure will probably go up again!!

I should mention that you don't need to be a resident of the Great Lakes region to comment. Heck, you don't even need to know anything about the subject to comment. The mountain lion lovers from California didn't let not knowing anything about cougars or South Dakota stop them from commenting on our mountain lion season.

 

[kolanuraven]

From the Casper Star Tribune....


CHEYENNE -- A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of Wyoming's lawsuit against the federal government over how wolves should be managed in the state after their removal from Endangered Species Act protection.

Wyoming filed suit after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected its plan for managing wolves in 2004. The agency is requiring Montana, Idaho and Wyoming to submit acceptable plans for managing the animals before it will remove them from the endangered species list.

The Montana and Idaho plans were accepted. Wyoming's was rejected in part because it would classify wolves as a potential nuisance that could be shot on sight outside the Yellowstone area.





In a four-page ruling Monday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in March 2005.

Johnson had denied the state's claim that the federal government violated the Endangered Species Act in rejecting the plan. He ruled that the Endangered Species Act didn't come into play because the rejection didn't determine wolves' status under the act.

An intervener in the case on Wyoming's side did not rule out appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"It's certainly not the end of the battle," said Bryan Skoric, the county attorney in Park County, which intervened in the case about a year ago.

 

[sw]

Right beside you LB, the most recent attacks here in MT were about 15 miles north of here which is getting way too close. The wolves are not a threatened species here on this place, they are in danger. :wink: