Advocates seek new status for gray wolves in Lower 48 to avoid Congressional int

[bearpaw]

Advocates seek new status for gray wolves in Lower 48 to avoid Congressional intervention
 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 27, 2015
 
BILLINGS, Montana — Wildlife advocates have petitioned federal officials to reclassify gray wolves as a threatened species, hoping to retain at least some protections that lawmakers in Congress want to repeal.
 
Wolves are classified as endangered across most of the lower 48 states except the Northern Rockies. "Endangered" is a more protective listing than "threatened."
 
Brett Hartl with the Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday's petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to downgrade the animals' status is meant to pre-empt Congressional intervention.
 
Lawmakers from the western Great Lakes and Wyoming have proposed lifting federal protections entirely in their states. That would put wolves under state control and allow hunting to resume after it was barred by the courts.
 
Spokesman Gavin Shire says the Fish and Wildlife Service will review the petition.
 
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[idahohuntr]

Same thing happened when Congress de-listed wolves in Id and Mt...all but the fringe groups tried to withdraw their litigation...too little too late.  I normally have a distaste for congress meddling in these issues, but if these fringe groups want to keep suing over an animal that is clearly not endangered...this should continue to be the result.

[wolfbait]

Advocates seek new status for gray wolves in Lower 48 to avoid Congressional intervention
 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 27, 2015
 
BILLINGS, Montana — Wildlife advocates have petitioned federal officials to reclassify gray wolves as a threatened species, hoping to retain at least some protections that lawmakers in Congress want to repeal.
 
Wolves are classified as endangered across most of the lower 48 states except the Northern Rockies. "Endangered" is a more protective listing than "threatened."
 
Brett Hartl with the Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday's petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to downgrade the animals' status is meant to pre-empt Congressional intervention.
 
Lawmakers from the western Great Lakes and Wyoming have proposed lifting federal protections entirely in their states. That would put wolves under state control and allow hunting to resume after it was barred by the courts.
 
Spokesman Gavin Shire says the Fish and Wildlife Service will review the petition.
 
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http://tinyurl.com/nlevtam

Is Delisting Rigged

If you follow ESA issues, you know that the Greens win most of the lawsuits they file against the USFWS. That could be due to one of two things, incompetent federal biologists or the fact that the USFWS sets the lawsuits up to lose!
Read More @

http://idahoforwildlife.com/Charles%20Kay/77-wolf%20recovery-is%20delisting%20rigged.pdf

[Bob33]

"Wildlife advocates."

[Special T]

The Sue and Settle strategy can be expanded to include suing and not putting up a grade A defense.

[idahohuntr]

The government is well represented in court.  Settlements take into account what is at stake, cost to litigate, and likelihood of prevailing. Attorneys don't go to court to lose. 

[Special T]

The ESA game is Chess not checkers. If you  think that everything done regarding it is straight forward Then i would highly recommend learning to play chess and/or reading Sun Tzu's Art of War.

The anti hunter crowd is playing chess and the Wolf is a just a piece. When the response is so inept it is either Will-full or Incompetence.

[idahohuntr]

How do you figure the wolf people are winning? Congress acted to delist them in 2011 in Id and Mt because of the greenies inability to "play chess" or see the bigger picture...now this thread indicates the same kind of thing is very possible for several other states and I would suggest with a Republican controlled congress is even more likely to occur than in 2011. 

I also don't see how you consider the response inept?  Can you point to something specific DOJ has done in wolf litigation that you find to be inept or incompetent?  Actually, can you point to multiple instances of this incompetence...as your post suggests it is very common and not just one or two things.