Feds, Wyoming weigh workable wolf options So what happens next with endangered wolves in the Northern Rockies? If U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula, Mont., remands the case back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as expected, the Bush administration has several options. Wyoming is also weighing its options, including suing the federal government for not delisting wolves. The environmental groups who are the victors are waiting for the agency to make the next move and waiting for a new administration that might be supportive of their goals of placing a higher floor on the number of wolves that must be protected in the region. Start with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Justice. The Bush administration first proposed delisting wolves in Idaho, Montana, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and northern Utah, leaving out Wyoming. Only when it could get Wyoming to say it wouldn’t allow hunters to kill so many wolves and it would expand the recovery area did the administration include that recalcitrant state in delisting. To go back to that route, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s biologists will have to show that there is genetic mixing between the wolves in Idaho and Montana and the wolves in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and Wyoming. A new study is expected out soon that insiders say will show there already has been mixing. What about Wyoming? Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg recently wrote to state lawmakers saying the state’s options include filing a lawsuit, leaving management to the federal government or writing a new wolf management plan....