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Wolves were removed from federal protection in January 2021 with management authority remaining with state and tribal authorities. Management plans guide each state's decisions about wolf regulations for hunting, trapping, and culling along with population monitoring, and livestock damage control.
Since 1973, the gray wolf has been on and off the federal government's endangered species list. When the wolves are on the list, advocates say the protections help wolves' place in the natural ...
The Wolf Depredation Control Board allocates state money for trapping, aerial hunting and other lethal wolf control measures as a means of reducing killings of livestock and other wildlife.
The last reported wolf killed in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (prior to today's legal hunting or control measures) occurred in May 1943 when Leo Cottenoir, a Native American sheepherder on the Wind River Reservation shot a wolf near the southern border of the park.
United States federal government took the issue under its control and enacted the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to help protect and restore the wolf population. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 restricted the killing of wolves and labeled them as endangered animals in 48 contiguous states. [ 51 ]
But aggressive wolf control measures employed by the state agencies, including allowing year-round killing of wolves, prompted the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, the Humane ...
The latest cases pending in federal court focus on the rules governing wolf recovery, namely the federal regulation that requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to remove all Mexican wolves north ...
Minnesota used to have control over its wolf population, [130] but this was revoked by a federal appellate court on August 1, 2017, making wolf management the charge of the federal government. [131] The court decided to retain the state's minimum population of 1,600 animals.