Wisconsin Representative Introduces Another Bill to Remove Gray Wolf From Endangered Species List
Friday, September 11th, 2020 -- 8:03 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -Another bill is making its way through the House of Representatives that aims to remove the gray wolf from the federal endangered species list.Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany and Rep. Pete Stauber of Minnesota say their measure would also give individual states the authority to manage their own wolf populations. As part of the Managing Predators Act, officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Wyoming would be given control of their wolf populations by permanently barring federal officials from interfering in state wolf management efforts. Tiffany adds that the federal Endangered Species Act has been converted into what he calls 'a statutory Hotel California,' where unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists see to it that animals check-in to the threatened and endangered list, but never leave.
The federal government delisted the gray wolf in the western Great Lakes region in 2012. But animal rights groups convinced a judge to place further protections on the animals and efforts to overturn that decision have been unsuccessful. State records show there have been over 65 wolf attacks so far this year involving farm animals or hunting dogs.
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