For the fourth time in 10 years, a court has stepped in to help protect gray wolves. In a ruling earlier this month a federal judge said wolves in the Great Lakes region must again receive federal protection under the Endangered Species Act , effectively taking management control away from the states. This ends the wolf hunt in Minnesota and Wisconsin. But state and …
Experts say Great Lakes wolves aren’t endangered
MINNEAPOLIS – A group of wolf experts disputed Monday that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are endangered or that a judge’s ruling will help the region’s population spread to other states. A federal judge on Friday threw out the Obama administration’s decision to remove wolves in the three states from the endangered list. The move banned sport hunting …
Minnesota ranchers want in one hand… Xhit in the other!
Minnesota ranchers, and Ranchers everywhere need to realize they came long after the wolf did…. Ranchers encroach on wolf land everywhere! Minnesota ranchers are concerned about a judge’s ruling restoring protections for gray wolves in the state. Friday’s ruling means wolves in Minnesota are considered threatened, and wolf hunting is not allowed. Livestock producers can ask state or federal authorities …
Federal court ruling on wolves could take years to clarify | Star Tribune
Even though wolves are thriving in Minnesota and around the Great Lakes, the federal government may have to start over in devising a plan to protect them in the Upper Midwest and beyond before the state is allowed to resume its three-year-old hunting season. A sharply worded federal court ruling handed down Friday put the wolf back on the endangered …