Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2013
A new lawsuit aims to halt the wolf hunting seasons in Wisconsin
and Minnesota and put the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes area back
on the endangered species list.
Some wildlife conservation groups don't like that Minnesota and Wisconsin went ahead with wolf hunting seasons less than a year after the animal came off the federal endangered species list in the western Great Lakes region. A coalition, including the Humane Society of the United States, has sued the Fish and Wildlife Service over its delisting of the gray wolf. Humane Society Wisconsin Director Alyson Bodai said hunting adds to other threats that wolves face.
Some wildlife conservation groups don't like that Minnesota and Wisconsin went ahead with wolf hunting seasons less than a year after the animal came off the federal endangered species list in the western Great Lakes region. A coalition, including the Humane Society of the United States, has sued the Fish and Wildlife Service over its delisting of the gray wolf. Humane Society Wisconsin Director Alyson Bodai said hunting adds to other threats that wolves face.
Bodai said the Endangered Species Act requires that species
fully recover their numbers across their traditional range before
delisting, and she said wolves have not come back in several other
states. Kurt Thiede of the Wisconsin DNR said it's disappointing to see
wolf delisting go back to court again. He said if the wildlife groups
win, killing of problem wolves would become more difficult, and it would
block the state going ahead with its management plan that aims to
reduce the wolf population, “so that would take away hunting and
trapping to manage the population.”
Thiede said if federal funding dries up, it would be harder for
the state to reimburse farmers who lose livestock due to wolves. The
Fish and Wildlife Service has 60 days to formally respond to the
delisting lawsuit.
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