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Credit Pacific Service Union On Jan. 15, 1995, with fanfare and international publicity, 14 gray wolves from Canada were released in the midst of the world's largest elk and buffalo herds, to be the seed, it was hoped, of a new breeding population in the Northern Rockies. Fifty-two more wolves were released here and in Idaho in 1995 and 1996.

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Credit First Service Union Now, buttressed by the return of wolves that migrated from Canada to northern Montana on their own, the wolf is back in the West after a half century's absence, in remarkably short order. More than 700 wolves now roam the Northern Rockies. And the federal government says it is time to end the protections.

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Card Credit Mobile Service Sometime this month or next, the federal Fish and Wildlife Service plans to change the status of the gray wolves in and around Glacier National Park, to "threatened," from "endangered." By spring, the service will remove all federal protection from wolves in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, meaning that they can be hunted or trapped. The new status will also mean that a rancher can kill a wolf that attacks livestock.

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Card Credit Discover Service "Biologically, wolves are recovered," said Ed Bangs, coordinator of the wolf recovery program for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Helena, Mont. "Our job is done."

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Credit Public Service Union Barring successful legal challenges, the gray wolf will join rarefied company. Just six other species have moved off the list of endangered plants and animals; 243 animals remain on the list.

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Card Credit Processing Service But far from ending the controversy over the wolf's return, the plan appears refocus the argument.

Center Credit Service Union Since their return, wolves have made their presence deeply felt in many ways, profoundly changing the Yellowstone elk herds as well as angering ranchers and delighting naturalists.

Card Credit Service Wireless Wildlife agencies in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are preparing to take over the responsibility and $1.1 million annual expense of managing the wolf from the federal government. Legal questions crop up, too. Montana and Idaho have laws that assure that the wolf will not be driven to extinction again. Wyoming has a law from the frontier days that classifies wolves as predators and lets them be shot on sight.

Credit Security Service Union The Wyoming Department of Game and Fish proposes that the designation remain in force except in two federal wilderness areas. In those areas, the wolf would be classified as a trophy animal, with carefully regulated hunting.

Credit Report Service "That's essential to give us the flexibility of being able to kill wolves like any other predator when it threatens livestock," said Jim Magagna, executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. "No one's going on wolf hunts."

Blogspot Com Christian Mr. Bangs said the Fish and Wildlife Service would not remove wolves from the endangered list without proper protection. The trophy classification is needed in a much wider area, he said.

Christian Counseling Credit Dave Moody, trophy game coordinator for Wyoming, agreed that his state's plan was flawed. All the wolves in Wyoming spend part of their time in the wilderness but need to venture out of the mountains in harsh weather, and so would be considered predators. "We can't assure long-term survival," he said.

Credit Federal Service Union The federal government can refuse to remove the wolf from the endangered list or can list it again if it seems threatened. "They disappeared because we hated them and killed them all," Mr. Bangs said. "And the only reason they would disappear again is because we hate them and kill them all." The agency will not let that occur, he said.

Credit Monitoring Service Environmentalists say they think the proposed status change is premature. Although the wolves have reached the threshold set out in the recovery plan 30 breeding pairs of wolves distributed in the three states the environmentalists say the distribution does not meet the letter of the plan. They added that stragglers in other states needed protection until they have recovered in those areas. A wolf appeared in northern Utah a few weeks ago, perhaps the first in 70 years.

Credit Division Service "The Fish and Wildlife Service has done a good job, but it is not complete," said Nina Fascione, a vice president of the Defenders of Wildlife, in Washington. "There's a long way to go before wolves are recovered in the Lower 48. We don't expect the Fish and Wildlife Service to put wolves back in all of their former range, say, Ohio. But there are areas with suitable habitat where the wolf needs to be returned."

Card Credit Online Service Those areas, she said, include parts of Colorado, Maine, New York, Oregon and Washington.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc Mr. Bangs said the purpose of the Endangered Species Act was to prevent extinction, not to return the species to all its former range.

Card Credit Fleet Service The issue is fraught not only with political and scientific controversy, but also with deep emotions. In the early 1990's, 170,000 public comments from all 50 states, as well as 50 countries, were registered on the environmental impact statement that preceded the wolf reintroduction. Pro-wolf sentiment outnumbered anti-wolf sentiment, 5 to 3.

Card Consolidation Credit For several years, tourists have flocked to the roads in this park to scan the sagebrush-studded hills in hopes of howling at a wolf and receiving an answer or glimpsing a loping wolf or a pack drunk on meat and sprawled on a hillside. This year, the 100,000th person logged a wolf sighting on a car safari in the Lamar Valley, and wolf T-shirts and coffee mugs are best sellers.

Credit Free Online Report So many people are traveling here to see wolves that they are losing their fear of humans. When wolves approach people, rangers shoot them with rubber bullets and beanbags to keep them fearful of humans.

Credit Federal First Service Wolves seem like big dogs to some people. But they are fierce and efficient predators. Since 1987, when the first depredation from naturally returning wolves was documented, 200 head of cattle, 500 sheep, 7 llamas, 1 horse and 43 dogs have been killed.

Consumer Credit Service Wolf advocates point out that far more livestock is lost to other causes. Federal statistics show that in 2000, of 81,000 sheep killed by predators, 80 were killed by wolves. Of 1,200 head of cattle killed, wolves were blamed for 32. The Defenders of Wildlife reimburses ranchers for market value for wolf depredation, averaging $600 per head of cattle.

Center Credit Family Service Robert J. Fanning Jr., founder and chairman of the Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, said that from his house in the Paradise Valley of Montana he had seen a yearly decline in the number of elk that left the park every year for their winter range in Montana.

Credit Reporting Service "In the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee," Mr. Fanning said, "a wolf will run through and kill a dozen elk calves. It's a slaughterfest."

Cca Credit Division Service Wolf biologists say although wolves have reduced elk numbers, probably substantially, there is no accurate way to determine the extent or whether the herds have been harmed by the losses.

Credit Free Report Service The wolf biologist for the park, Doug Smith, said wolves were restoring a welcome balance. "It's ironic," Mr. Smith said. "Yellowstone has always been criticized for having too many elk. Now within two years, it's, `There's not enough elk.' By whatever means, reduction of elk is a good thing, because it restores a naturally functioning ecosystem and biodiversity."

Card Credit Customer Discover Mr. Bangs of the wildlife service said the emotions stirred by wolves had driven the government to manage that population more intensively than any other.

Credit Repair Report Service The wolf is not roaming the Rockies unfettered. Twenty percent wear electronic bracelets, beaming their whereabouts to a receiver. If they cross a line and develop a taste for domestic animals, a wildlife SWAT unit swoops in, sometimes by helicopter, and moves the animal or destroys it.

Credit Legal Repair Service "If there's no alternative, we kill a couple of wolves," Mr. Bangs said. "We keep killing them until we run out of wolves or the problem stops."

Cic Credit Monitoring Service Federal agents have eliminated 11 packs, 130 wolves altogether.

Ccs Credit Division Service "Wolves are kind of stupid," Mr. Bangs said, "because they evolved without predators."

Credit Service Union Worker One technique uses a "Judas wolf" that is trapped and given a radio collar. It is followed as it returns to its pack, and the other pack members are killed.

1st Credit Service Union "It's not that hard to do," Mr. Bangs said, "and not something that we're especially proud of. It's a necessary evil."

Card Chase Credit Customer Other methods involve giving a wolf with a propensity toward beef or lamb a "RAG box," a radio-activated guard. When the wolf approaches livestock, the radio activates an alarm system at the ranch, setting off recordings of people yelling, doors slamming, gunfire and breaking glass, scaring off the wolves.

Card Chase Credit Service The other large population of gray wolves in the Lower 48 states is in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Officials regard that group as recovered, too, and will propose its removal from the endangered list. That would end all protection for large populations of gray wolves.

Citi Credit Monitoring Service "It gets wolves out of some places," Mr. Smith, the biologist, said, "and protects them where they are supposed to be. That's the balance delisting hopes to strike."

Credit Plus Service Union By Jim Robbins
New York Times - 12/17/2002

Topic: Endangered Species

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