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Wolf Delisting
« on: March 09, 2009, 12:05:38 PM »
I haven't seen anyone talking about this.  Sounds like good news for all states except WY.

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 12:15:10 PM »
Haven't heard anything since Obama shut it down. Is it back....

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2009, 12:35:07 PM »
(03-07) 04:00 PDT Washington - --

After reversing President George W. Bush on several environmental rules in its first month, the Obama administration let stand Friday one of Bush's last-minute changes: The gray wolf will be removed from the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies and the western Great Lakes region.




Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the decision, saying the finding by the Fish and Wildlife Service under Bush was "a supportable one. ... Scientists have concluded that recovery has occurred." The regions together have a population of nearly 5,600 wolves.

He also agreed with the Bush administration's decision to keep the wolf on the endangered species list in Wyoming, calling that state's wolf recovery plan insufficient.

But management of the predator will be turned over to state agencies in Montana and Idaho and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah, in addition to the Great Lakes states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The delisting of the gray wolf was the latest chapter in an ongoing battle between the federal government and environmental groups, which successfully sued to keep the animal on the endangered list.

Bush's Interior Department announced the delisting in the final days of his term, and it wasn't finalized by the time President Obama took office and froze all pending rule changes.

Salazar's announcement Friday almost assuredly means environmentalists will sue again to keep the wolf under federal protection, continuing the saga of an animal that rouses fierce debate among ranchers and conservationists in the West.

Wolves once roamed much of North America but dwindled to near-extinction before the administration of President Bill Clinton reintroduced them in Yellowstone National Park.

Populations grew quickly enough that a decade after reintroduction, Bush officials tried to remove the wolf from the endangered list, only to be blocked by the courts.

The announcement by Salazar, who grew up on a ranch in rural Colorado, came after a string of Obama administration moves to freeze or roll back Bush-era environmental decisions. The Interior Department alone has slowed efforts to increase oil and gas development offshore and in Rocky Mountain shale.

On Tuesday, Obama marked the department's 160th anniversary by announcing he was overruling a Bush decision to allow federal agencies to determine on their own whether construction projects would harm endangered species. Obama restored the practice of requiring all agencies to consult with expert biologists about potential impact to protected plants or wildlife.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This article appeared on page A - 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2009, 01:00:20 PM »
We can only hope that there would be a limited entry seson on wolf hunting. I'll tell ya folks there are four hides I really like:
#1 Beaver
#2 Sea lion and sea ottor (these I've seen before the ban as a little kid and after the ban because Native Alaskans can hunt them)
#3 Wolf

All three have qualities that are out of this world.

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2009, 01:04:07 PM »
HOT NEWS Hunt4!   GAME ON! 

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2009, 01:04:25 PM »
there's a thread or 2 on here about it somewhere.
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" In today's instant gratification society, more and more pressure revolves around success and the measurement of one's prowess as a hunter by inches on a score chart or field photos produced on social media. Don't fall into the trap. Hunting is-and always will be- about the hunt, the adventure, the views, and time spent with close friends and family. " Ryan Hatfield

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2009, 01:10:07 PM »
Out of all the things to miss.    I wonder if I will be the only one on here willing to bank a hunt just for a wolf rug.

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2009, 01:12:39 PM »
So where can I go to kill a wolf, didnt know there were any around the lower 48  :dunno: 

 ;) ;) ;)

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2009, 01:15:10 PM »
Lot better chance of finding one of them right now as compared to a 360 Bull. 

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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2009, 01:26:37 PM »
Ah, 360 bulls are a dime a dozen :chuckle: Just kidding. Gotta get me a lifesize wolf!! Need a nice scene where the wolf is taking down a Idaho whitetail I have, *censored*s killed him before I got to kill him.
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Re: Wolf Delisting
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2009, 01:31:03 PM »
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in the new idaho big game proposals they set an oct1-nov 31 season with limited quotas,

why are they waiting? start right now...and ask for forgiveness later.

Its always better to ask for forgiveness than permission

 


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