The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Friday he would try again to abandon the wolves in the Western Great Lakes region of the Federal endangered species list, although the courts have overturned previous attempts.
About 4 200 wolves roam the forests and fields in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with the number growing steadily since the protection of the Government in the 1970s.
"Wolves in the West of the Great Lakes have reached the recovery," said service acting Director Rowan Gould.
The Agency said that it would take 60-day public comment before a final decision on its proposed rule. His action came a day after Congress voted to strip Wolves of federal protection in five Northern States: Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah.
The service has proposed the deletion of the Great Lakes wolves from the list endangered four times since 2004, but is not respected by the decisions of the Court which sided by the rights of animals and environmental groups.
The agency strives in its newly proposed rule to the objections raised by the courts, including the case to identify Great Lakes as a distinct population wolves and requesting their removal from the endangered list at the same timethe Agency Parham of the Georgia spokesman said.
For the first time, the rule acknowledges the existence of two species of wolves in the area: the Gray Wolf, which was the type listed under the endangered species Act, and the Eastern Wolfhistorically varies in the Canada East and northeast of the United States the proposal to delete the Federal protections apply to both.
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