Group plans suit for nationwide gray wolf recovery

[Kadie]

Group plans suit for nationwide gray wolf recovery
Posted: Dec 21, 2010 11:15 AM by Beth Saboe (KPAX Media Center)
Updated: Dec 21, 2010 11:30 AM

An Arizona environmental group says it plans to sue the federal government for failing to develop a recovery plan for gray wolves in the lower 48 states.

The Center for Biological Diversity says a protection plan is required by the Endangered Species Act and should have been developed 30 years ago or more.

The group wants the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to create a national recovery plan to help existing wolves populations and return wolves to some of their historic range around the country.

"Wolves are an integral part of this country's natural history and need a national recovery plan now," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center.

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FILE - This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf. An environmental group has filed notice that it will sue the federal government to force it to adopt a plan for the recovery of gray wolves across the lower 48 states. Biologists with the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 they want to expand that recovery nationwide. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,file)

[villager]

1. Given that the hope & change folks thought shooting wolves was a.o.k.

...I hope the suit goes forward, to rein in the Executive branch...

[postulater]

2. The Wisconsin wolf population has increased dramatically

over the last ten years or so.

The state has a plan in place for regulating the population once the federal restrictions are withdrawn.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

3. I wait for the day...

That my wolf brothers and sisters can once again live without much fear of anti-wolf nuts. However I know all to well that we will continue to be hunted and vilified Palinite 'humans'. (I'm not sure they deserve to be called humans hence the ' '.)

[Vincardog]

4. With my history of having wild dogs massacre my ducks and gees I would prefer the Wolves

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. There are practical limitations that will have to be addressed

Wolves are predators and humans will be prey in some areas at some times. Most people will not accept that. Any plan will have to keep them away from people and claims that it is a human problem will not be fly with most people.

I live in cougar country. We stay out of each others way, and I minimize temptations for them. I used to have people illegally camping on my property. More than one lost a family dog to the local big cats. Fortunately no human ever died...though there were a few really stupid ones who might not have been much of a loss.

[aikoaiko]

6. really? All 48 states?

Seems impractical.

[Myrina]

7. Maybe if the McNeighborhoods and McVacation sites stop encroaching ..

... on their natural habitats, leaving them with no alternative but to be in our 'hood because our 'hood used to be their 'hood, they wouldn't be a 'problem'.

Same with the coyotes that I see regularly on my neighborhood soccer and baseball fields. 10 years ago I would have been at the very outskirts of the city and the other side of the beltway would have been woods and farms,. A coyote sighting would have been a rare thing inside the beltway. Now, because of urban sprawl and over-development of 'office parks', the coyotes are moving inward because there's basically no place left for them to go.

Hell, a couple autumns ago, a big old doe walked across my front lawn on a Sunday morning, inside the Indianapolis city limits!!