Howling Over Federal Plan to Expand Wolf Killing
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Federal wildlife officials allow expanding killing of ânon-essentialâ gray wolves in the northern Rockies.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 23--A national animal-protection group has sued the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, contending the agency isn't doing enough to stop the accidental trapping of bald eagles, Canada lynx and gray wolves.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to replace four decades of federal protections for the American bald eagle with new rules against disturbing it.
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration violated the Endangered Species Act when it relaxed protections on many of the nation's gray wolves.
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Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Supporters are beginning their High Court challenge to the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales.
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By SUE MAJOR HOLMES  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An environmental group went to court Thursday in an effort to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand a program to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico and Arizona.
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The federal government will begin poisoning prairie dogs in southwestern South Dakota next week after reaching a deal with conservationists designed to protect the endangered black-footed ferret.
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By AP Wire Service  CHEYENNE, Wyo.  -- Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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Outdoorsmen will be asked this spring whether the state should set a hunting season for timber wolves, whose numbers are rebounding here even though the species is endangered in most other states.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal groups are opposing the move.
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Shortly after federal wolf manager Ed Bangs made the difficult decision that wolves preying on livestock in the Northern Rockies had to be killed, an e-mail from a wolf activist caught his attention.
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A federal agency recommended killing about 30 sea lions a year at a Columbia River dam where the marine animals feast on salmon migrating upriver to spawn
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars.
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SALMON, Idaho  - An outspoken opponent of U.S. government efforts to reestablish the gray wolf in western states has pleaded guilty to trying to poison the federally protected species, a U.S. prosecutor said on Friday.
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By BEN NEARY  CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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A proposal to shift US intelligence functions from the CIA to new agencies under a national director came under heavy fire on Monday from critics who said it would wreak