There is only one week left to submit public comments on the Trump Administration’s ill-conceived proposed rule to strip Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. The deadline to submit comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is 11:59 pm ET / 8:59 pm PT on Tuesday, May 14th. If you haven’t already done so, please speak up to ensure continued protections for gray wolves!

The rule is a premature decision unsupported by science that will further threaten an imperiled species. Federal protections for gray wolves brought them back from the brink of extinction following decades of persecution. This rash decision to delist wolves would allow states to open killing seasons on wolves, permitting special-interest trophy hunters and trappers to senselessly kill wolves before the species has made a full recovery. As demonstrated in Idaho where wolves have already been stripped of…