Usual Suspects Sue to Stop Wolf Delisting in Great Lakes Region

[BigHornRam]

Even a pledge to not hunt wolves for a minimum of 5 years in that region is not good enough for these guy's. Just wait until the FWS try to delist in the Mountain States.

Groups sue to keep gray wolf on endangered species list
April 17, 2007
St. Paul, Minn. — (AP) - Three animal advocacy groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday over its decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., says the gray wolf essentially remains endangered in the three states, and it demands that the Fish and Wildlife Service be prevented from implementing its "delisting" plan.

The lawsuit was filed by The Humane Society of the United States, Help Our Wolves Live, and the Animal Protection Institute.

"The agencies' decision to strip wolves of all federal protection is biologically reckless and contrary to the requirements of the Endangered Species Act," Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president of litigation for the Humane Society, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Jason Holm in Minneapolis said Tuesday that he hadn't seen the lawsuit and could not comment on it.

In March, federal officials removed the gray wolves from its endangered list and handed over management of the population to state and tribal governments.

In Minnesota, the state Department of Natural Resources assigned three conservation officers to managing the wolf population and planned to hire a new wolf specialist, said Mike DonCarlos, the department's wildlife research and policy manager.

DonCarlos said he had not heard about the lawsuit Monday.

It is rare to have a plant or animal removed from the endangered species list. Before the gray wolf, also known as the timber wolf, only 16 species had recovered enough to be removed from the list.

By the early 1900s, a combination of habitat loss, dwindling prey and bounty hunting reduced the population of wolves in the Lower 48 states to a few hundred in far northern Minnesota and a handful on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.

The wolf was classified as an endangered species in 1974, when Minnesota's population dipped as low as 350.

Minnesota now has 3,020 wolves, mostly in the northern part of the state, living in about 485 packs. Nearly 1,000 more live in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

 

[MNHunter]

Kind of expected it I guess, even with a perfectly sound management plan in place they will sue. There could be a million wolves and they'd sue to prevent delisting.

 

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Big deal anyone can sue anyone anytime. I would think that all the ducks are in row and the lawsuit will fail.

 

[BigHornRam]

Hire a good enough lawyer and holes can be found in even the best delisting/ wolf management plan. HSUS has a lot of cash to hire "good lawyers". I wouldn't bet money on the USFWS winning this one. But if they do, you can certainly bet there will an appeal.

No concern about wasted taxpayer money here S. S.? Who is blocking delisting?

 

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No concern about wasted taxpayer money here S. S.?

I'll bet the cost of one cruise missile sent to Irag to blow up a milk factory cost's more than this lawsuit will. I guess it's all in how you look at what's waste or not.

 

[BigHornRam]

S. S.,

Remember your whining about Montana funding Wyomings lawsuit?

"They have nothing to gain, and $150,000 to loose. We really don't want this thing to go to court. It would be better for the WS to just delist them and hand the management over to the states as they did in the midwest region.

The way the delisting plan was written for the delisting to occur all states in the recovery area had to come up with a plan that would be approved by the WS and reconize the wolf as a species worthy of existance, also a management plan that would keep the numbers at or above the recovery objective. Wyoming hasn't written such a management plan, so the process hasen't be completed and thats why such a lawsuit is dumb."

Montana and Wyoming are going to beat the wolf huggers to the punch. If the HSUS doesn't like the Great Lakes plan, they certainly aren't going to go for Montana's blood thirsty plan that allows hunting. Best tactic is to set precedent by beating FWS in court, and the FWS doesn't plan to appeal unlike the wolf huggers. Get it?

 

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Now Ramitupyrarse,

How does Wyomings suit over the Feds not delisting the wolf in their state, (where by the way they havent' completed the proper work to make sure that wolves will stay off the list,) and say the midwest where they do have the proper implementation done that was required by the endangered species act. Wolves recovered, reconized as a viable species that has a right to exist and will be managed as all big game species as such.

This is the whole point with what I said in your old stupid post that you brought back up.... We don't want to go to court in Wyoming, they havent' completed the guidliines set forth by the Feds to insure that the wolves will stay off the list.

Man, your cranium must be hard....because it is thick.


In Wyoming I see no reason to send good money after bad, we'll lose this one.

In the Midwest and here for that matter, the lawsuit will come, no matter what lets get on with it sooner now than latter.

When it's thrown out in the Mid-West it will clear the way here. Why would they sue after loosing there.... They will loose.