The Manage Our Wolves Act aims to remove the animal from the list of threatened and endangered species and allow ranchers, landowners, hunters and other civilians to shoot them.
ED ADAMCZYK: ‘A bill removing federal protections for the gray wolf species was passed by the House on Friday. The Manage Our Wolves Act aims to remove the animal from the list of threatened and endangered species — and allow ranchers, landowners, hunters and other civilians to shoot them. The move also would direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end protection under the Endangered Species Act, and prohibits lawsuits challenging its delisting…
“We are not having catastrophic predation on cattle in southern Oregon, and we could accommodate more wolves,” Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio said. “A lot of this is based on some sort of gut-level historic fear or hatred of predators that has been passed down from generation to generation.” Animal rights groups opposed the effort to delist.
“Management of gray wolves would be turned over to states; when this has occurred in the past, states with wolf populations have promptly allowed hunting,” the Animal Welfare Institute said. “Opening up killing seasons would jeopardize the fragile progress toward recovery that wolves have made”.’ SOURCE…
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