Bush Administration removes federal protections for gray wolves — again
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now In a last minute move anticipated and decried by environmentalists, the Bush Administration has removed a large segment of the Rocky Mountain gray wolves and western...
View ArticleWolves under fire; Idaho hunter called ‘wolf murderer’
From Green Right Now Reports At least three of Idaho’s wolves have been killed as hunting commenced this week under the first authorized sport wolf hunt in the lower 48 states. But while the hunt has...
View ArticleDead wolves, dead cattle, dwindling West
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Every so often I pause and wonder about the Rocky Mountain wolves, which were de-listed from protection under the Endangered Species Act in 2009 and hunted for sport...
View ArticleCongress unilaterally delists the Rocky Mountain wolves as part of the budget...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Congress removed the Rocky Mountain gray wolves from federal protection under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, passing a rider in the budget bill that takes...
View ArticleU.S. gray wolves headed for disaster in 2013?
Update June 7, 2013: It’s official, the FWS has posted a new rule that would remove protections for gray wolves across the country, except for the Southwest’s Mexican wolf, which would be declared an...
View ArticleGray wolf death toll grows as US hunters take their bounty
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Hunters have killed 299 wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, as the trophy hunting season approaches its rough midpoint later this month. Wolf in Lamar Canyon...
View ArticleGray wolves get good news (though they’re still being shot)
Green Right Now Reports An expert panel reviewing a federal plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the US says the government would be based its move on faulty science. Wolves in Yellowstone,...
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