MATTHEW BROWN, Associated PressOct. 28, 2021Updated: Oct. 28, 2021 6:48 p.m.Comments

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the Biden administration to enact emergency protections for gray wolves in the U.S. West in response to Republican-backed state laws that make it easier to kill the predators.

Twenty-one U.S. senators led by New Jersey’s Cory Booker and Michigan’s Gary Peters asked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to shield wolves from being killed for 240 days while permanent protections are considered.https://9c93b0893c444d15c149d1493eb515ff.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

With hunts in the region ongoing, a federal wildlife agency spokesperson told The Associated Press that emergency protection of wolves “remains on the table.”https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.486.2_en.html#goog_965257309Read More

It’s been legal to hunt and trap wolves in the U.S. Northern Rockies for more than a decade after they rebounded from widespread extermination and federal endangered species protections were lifted.

But Republican elected officials in Montana and Idaho are intent…