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Monday, May 04, 2015
Wyoming congresswoman presses for national wolf delisting
Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis and others in Congress continue to push
the U.S. Department of the Interior to end federal protections for
wolves nationwide. Lummis, a Republican, and others in Congress
this week wrote to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell calling on them
to implement a stalled federal plan to end protections for wolves under
the federal Endangered Species Act. The lawmakers claim healthy wolf
populations justify ending protections. In response to
environmental challenges, federal courts recently have reinstated
protections for wolves in Wyoming, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
State appeals of the court rulings are pending while legislation also is
pending in Congress to reverse the court decisions. Meanwhile,
others in Congress have warned Jewell that bowing to political pressure
to strip protections from wolves would undercut the Endangered Species
Act. AP
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