Feds Mull Removing Wolf Protections
The Obama administration on Friday will propose lifting most of the remaining federal protections for gray
wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts but has been criticized by some scientists as premature. With more than 6,100 wolves roaming the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe told The Associated Press that a species persecuted to near-extermination last century has successfully rebounded. But prominent scientists and dozens of lawmakers in Congress want more. They say wolves need to be shielded so they can expand beyond the portions of 10 states they now occupy/
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