Posted November 19, 2018 9:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

A proposal to remove the growing population of gray wolves from federal protections under the Endangered Species Act is headed to the Senate. On Thursday, the House voted 196-180 to approve the nominally bipartisan H.R. 6784, which would lead to the removal of the gray wolf in the lower 48 states from the Act’s List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.
Considered a keystone predator by biologists, the wolf has been listed as endangered since 1978 in most of the country, but lawmakers and conservation agencies argue the time has come for states to manage their local, resurgent, populations.
“If you live in Wisconsin, especially northern Wisconsin, it might be necessary for us to actually manage this population because it’s good for the environment,” said U.S. Rep.Sean Duffy, R-Wisc. “It’s good for the wolves. It’s good for the cattle. It’s actually really good for our deer population. And so I just think this just makes common sense.”
A co-sponsor of the bill, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., said that in his state conservation officials have told him they documented the first gray wolf pack in Washington in 2008, and a decade later they now have 22 known packs with the state’s wolf population jumping

Source: Guns.com

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