NRDC tells us that wolves and their friends have scored perhaps the final victory in the battle against slaughter in the Northern Rockies! A district
federal judge agreed with conservationists that wolves in the Northern Rockies were improperly removed from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. It took a year and half and 500 dead wolves to get the slaughter stopped again. The decision halts hunting seasons planned for this fall in Montana and Idaho. The wolves in Wyoming were not removed from the endangered species list because its management plan was deemed inadequate. The disparate treatment of the wolves in the Northern Rockies along political lines rather than biological ones was the major reason for the decision to restore listing. It has been a long fight, but people who care about wolves carried the day in court. Thank you, Judge Malloy for seeing it through wolf eyes.
