Feds hurt Wyoming's efforts to settle wolf issue The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service had an opportunity recently to make real progress on the seemingly unending wolf de-listing issue - and they blinked. Instead of a careful response to litigation triggered by earlier efforts to remove wolves from Endangered Species Act protections, the agency is pushing for a careless new plan in a rushed process designed to fail. Instead of addressing genetic-diversity concerns by enhancing natural dispersal, the USFWS is proposing to set a dangerous precedent by using expensive, heavy-handed methods that include trucking wolves from state to state, artificial insemination and pup-swapping. Instead of helping Wyoming shore up the deficiencies in its management plan, the agency is telling us to fend for ourselves.They doom us to many more years of court haggling on an issue that already has exhausted us all. In short, instead of taking Wyoming a step forward, the Fish & Wildlife Service is attempting to knock us three steps backward....