Within a couple of weeks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to once again remove the gray wolf from federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. In most similar cases, this action would be considered definitive and conclusive. Not so with wolves.
That’s because, notwithstanding the science and, many would argue, common sense upon which the service’s delisting is founded, lawsuits from those opposing delisting — among them the Center for Biological Diversity headquartered in Arizona — are likely, if not guaranteed.
At issue, fundamentally, is wolf hunting and trapping. When Minnesota wolves were delisted by the service in 2011 and returned to state management, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) oversaw three consecutive regulated hunting and trapping seasons.
Now, following a…
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