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Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« on: March 18, 2011, 04:45:27 PM »
You can tell the pressure is on with congress considering delisting wolves, the chess game continues....
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Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
The Associated Press
Published: 03/18/11

BILLINGS, Mont. ¬ Facing mounting pressure from Congress, wildlife advocates and the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday reached an agreement to lift gray wolf protections in Montana and Idaho and allow hunting of the predators to resume.

The settlement agreement - opposed by some environmentalists - is intended to resolve years of litigation that have shielded wolves in the Northern Rockies from hunting, even as the predator's population has sharply expanded.

Terms of the deal were to be filed in U.S. District Court in Montana. It would keep the species on the endangered list, at least temporarily, in four states where they are considered most vulnerable: Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and Utah. And it calls for a scientific panel to re-examine wolf recovery goals that set a minimum population level of 300 wolves in the region.

"For too long, wolf management in this country has been caught up in controversy and litigation instead of rooted in science, where it belongs," said Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes.

There are an estimated 1,651 wolves in the region following a costly but successful restoration effort. That program stirred deep antipathy toward the predators among western ranchers and hunters, who blame wolves for livestock attacks and a recent decline in some elk herds.

Court rulings blocked prior efforts by the Bush and Obama administrations to lift wolf protections.

But with Western lawmakers threatening to intervene, environmentalists said they wanted to pre-empt precedent-setting federal legislation on wolves. They fear congressional intervention could broadly undermine the Endangered Species Act.

The deal resulted from "a combination of the political pressure and trying to end the cycle of battling with the Fish and Wildlife Service," said Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Although wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana could begin as soon as this fall, the deal provides assurances to protect the species over the long term and even expand its range into other states, Suckling said.

Not all of the groups involved in wolf litigation agreed to the settlement, which will complicate efforts to garner approval from U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula.

Molloy's support is crucial because he must agree to put a stay on an order he issued last summer that reinstated wolf protections in Idaho and Montana.

Attorneys for Earthjustice previously represented most of the plaintiffs in the case. They withdrew this week citing "ethical obligations," but three of the four groups opposed to Friday's agreement already have brought on new attorneys.

"We're going to defend the judge's ruling," said Tom Woodbury with the Western Watersheds Project, referring to Molloy's 2010 order that reinstated protections for wolves in Idaho and Montana.

More than 1,300 wolves were tallied in Montana and Idaho in recent counts by state, federal and tribal biologists.

Only about 40 live in Oregon and Washington. But Suckling said the settlement agreement lays the groundwork for more wolves in those states and beyond by keeping them protected during their anticipated expansion.

"We need to start to build that second population, and this puts us on the road to get that done," he said.
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Re: Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2011, 04:47:28 PM »
 :IBCOOL: I'm all for hunting them and getting them unlisted. I don't like that part about putting more of them in "those states" (Oregon and Washington)

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Re: Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2011, 04:51:49 PM »
my exact thoughts too ray...
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Re: Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2011, 09:21:09 AM »
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,69816.0.html

 So how about we send our  Reps another  (and another) round of letters in support of changes in the ESA while we got the bunny huggin leaf lickers on the run?. They WILL be back ,but with MORE lawyers for US to pay for. I guarantee it.
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Re: Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2011, 10:08:17 AM »
Wow u could find all information with story on cnn.com and new york time and anywhere each states with all newspapers.  Media spreading scream beg to anti people look at us what we getting to hunt wolf this fall....      hopefully Fed wont change their mind since possible anti deposit million dollars to Fed account and beg to stop wolf hunt.    :bash:

I am gonna shoot wolf this fall period.

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Re: Deal reached to lift wolf protections in 2 states
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2011, 10:31:00 AM »
Wolves need to be managed at a certain level of numbers. We have all seen what they are capable of doing to Wildlife numbers that we have fought so long and hard to build. I agree with so many people that if we as hunters do not act now in every which way we can we will wind up like these other states. The tree huggers will always be there to fight and last time I checked they have alot of money and people backing them.

I have for one have seen wolves in this state long before all of this got started. ( not gonna get into where, when, whatever, I now what I saw)

I can't help much now because I am too busy defending this country but bet your ass I will be heavily involved in anyway I can to prevent the wolf population from getting out of hand in this state. money, meetings, protest, whatever. I have lived in washington my whole life for the most part and refuse to let some wolf pack ruin the elk herds like they have done elsewhere.

Anyone that needs help with fighting this effort please contact me and I will volunteer my time as needed.

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