The Trump Administration is planning on stripping ALL protection for Gray Wolves (except the Mexican Grey Wolf) by the end of this year.
Below is just part of an article about the plan.
While wolves cannot be recovered everywhere they used to be found – much of their Lower 48 habitat is now uninhabitable for them – there is still plenty of suitable habitat left in areas where wolves have yet to recover. In it’s proposed delisting plan, USFWS seeks to ensure the continued existence of only two regional metapopulations of gray wolves in the six states of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. It ignores vast swaths of existing, highly suitable habitat in the Southern Rockies, parts of California and the Pacific Northwest, and the Northeast – regions which will remain forever impoverished by reduced biological diversity and impaired ecosystem health.
The proposal undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by embracing a museum approach to conservation that would relegate wolves to a small fraction of their historic range and ignoring the fundamental purpose of the Act “to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend may be conserved.” According to scientists like William Ripple, an ecologist at Oregon State University, “we’re just uncovering the critical role that wolves and other predators serve in the ecosystem at the same time their populations are declining and are at risk.”
Once the federal delisting plan is adopted, USFWS will transfer management authority for all gray wolves to the states, most of which have shown little inclination to independently support gray wolf recovery at viable or ecologically effective levels.
History tells us that under the states’ authority to manage wolf populations, legal and liberal wolf control and hunting programs often becomes the predominant management strategy, with little consideration for the wolf’s ecological importance.
Nearly two thousand wolves were killed in 2011-2013 alone, and thousands more since in states where protections were temporarily or permanently lifted.
I don't know what to say. Add this idiot's policy to all of the others passed by idiotic men. They are hollow men. Hollow men. In the last few years, we have seen man (and I do mean men, although there are some mighty hollow women too) devolve to the basest levels. But their darkness is causing the goodness to rise up in others and that goodness will overtake the dark. It is a dynamic that we have seen before and will see again.
This has me on the verge of tears. The US is so blessed to have all these animals... and then to start killing them again? Norway only has a few. They did the same thing.
A wolf moved back into the Netherlands a year ago. Now it has a pack, little ones. This is big news here. People rejoice. Why can't anyone? All this hunting has to stop. It is evil. Dying/killing is NOT a sport.