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Title: Draft Rule ends protection for gray wolves
Post by: Jingles on April 27, 2013, 08:17:55 AM

Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range.

The draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The Associated Press contends the roughly 6,000 wolves now living in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes are enough to prevent the species' extinction. The agency says having gray wolves elsewhere — such as the West Coast, parts of New England and elsewhere in the Rockies — is unnecessary for their long-term survival.

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http://news.yahoo.com/draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-200022814.html (http://news.yahoo.com/draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-200022814.html)

Title: Re: Draft Rule ends protection for gray wolves
Post by: furiouzgeorge on April 27, 2013, 08:42:04 AM

Now give us a season! It'll be all of ours civic duty to help mop 'em up!

Title: Re: Draft Rule ends protection for gray wolves
Post by: Mr Mykiss on April 27, 2013, 09:04:38 AM

Quote from: furiouzgeorge on April 27, 2013, 08:42:04 AM

Now give us a season! It'll be all of ours civic duty to help mop 'em up!

Amen brother!!