It’s now or never for gray wolves in the Lower 48 states: The Trump administration has announced that they plan to end wolves’ Endangered Species Act protections.¹

This could be a disaster. Delisting wolves in this way would leave them vulnerable across the entire Lower 48 states.

Hunting, trapping and poisoning nearly drove wolves to extinction in the 1900s.² Without the proven protection of the ESA, we could see a repeat of last century’s tragedy.

What happens next depends on us. This is our moment to show the administration that Americans want wolves to have a future in this country.

When wolves lose the protection of the ESA, hundreds or thousands of them die. When the wolf population around the Great Lakes were taken off the list, 1,500 were killed before protection resumed.³

With…