Article Source: Virginia Morell, ScienceInsider, August 6, 2010
"Hunted last year in Montana and Idaho, the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf (Canis lupus) is once again on the federal endangered species list. Yesterday, a federal judge in Helena overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS's) decision last year to remove the wolves from the list in those two states but leave them on it in Wyoming.
"Conservationists applauded U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's decision, but state wildlife officials in Montana and Idaho argue that the wolves' rebounding population needs to be better managed, including being hunted."
This is good news for those who are happy just to know that these animals can continue to live in the wild in the United States? There are now close to 2000 wolves in the three mountain states. The wolves were eradicated in the United States, but some came down on their own from Canada and others were reintroduced. 2000 is a very small number of animals to maintain a species, and the existence of a subpopulation in Canada, while great, is not a substitute for one in the continuous 48 states.
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