Wolf Delisting Challenged

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Eleven conservation groups have notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it violated the Endangered Species Act by removing gray wolves from the endangered species list.

The groups contend that populations in the Northern Rockies do not have adequate genetic diversity, and that the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have not made meaningful commitments to wolf conservation.

The groups (which include Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies) intend to challenge the agency’s decision in federal court.

In an effort to overturn the service’s delisting rule before hundreds of wolves can be killed in the three states, the conservation groups served the letter within hours of publication of the delisting rule for gray wolves in the Federal Register.

Under the delisting rule, the states will assume management of wolves on March 28.

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