Wisconsins OWN ELECTED Congressman, has proven that they should not be allowed to Manage their own Animals!! Ribble says he’s introducing a bill to give the Fish and Wildlife Service final say. And his plan would put management and protection of the gray wolf in the hands of Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states.
“My bill doesn’t have anything to do with the Endangered Species Act. It just says a court should not be making a determination. And, in fact, if the population decreases the Fish and Wildlife Service can re-list the wolf at any time,” Ribble says.
Wisconsin’s divisive wolf story is taking on a new twist. A Congressman from Wisconsin is spearheading legislation to permanently delist wolves in the Great Lakes region.
Action could come this week in Washington.
Wisconsin has held three wolf hunts, since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the species from endangered status, a few years back.
The last hunt ended in December. The quota was 150 wolves; hunters harvested four more.
Two weeks later, a federal judge put Great Lakes states’ wolves back on the endangered species list. She said Fish and Wildlife should never have delisted the predator.
Congressman Reid Ribble of Wisconsin was among those saying enough is enough.
“That was a determination that the judge made. The Fish and Wildlife Service believes what they did was in the best interest of the wolf population and that they’re monitoring a population in these states is in fact accurate and warranted the delisting, “Ribble says.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act. Its decision to delist the Great Lakes wolf followed more than a decade of debate and flurry of court battles over the gray wolf.
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