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There
are some 2,700 wolves
across Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming, and
seemingly just as many
opinions about how
they should be
managed.
In August, a federal
judge from the U.S.
District Court in
Montana added one more
to the mix when he
ordered the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service
(USFWS) to revisit its
2024 decision to keep
Northern Rocky
Mountain gray wolves
off the federal
endangered species
list and under the
management of those
three states.
Among other missteps,
the agency had not
incorporated “the best
available science”
into its decision,
Judge Donald Molloy
wrote. His decision
has come at a
precarious time for
the Endangered Species
Act: The USFWS is
considering revoking
key protections for
habitat critical to
endangered species,
and a handful of
proposed bills before
Congress would remove
protections from
certain animals,
bypassing the agency.
The ruling is just the latest chapter in a saga that’s stretched
on since 1995 over
whether wolves across
different regions of
the lower 48 states
should be listed—what
Molloy calls a
“political yo-yo
process.” Scientists
say this constant
volleying could have
profound consequences
for wolves in the
contiguous U.S.,
undermining the
decades of work that
conservationists and
governments have done
to bring them back
from the brink. Gray
wolves are still
listed as endangered
or threatened in the
majority of states.
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