Press Release
Service to Initiate Status Review of Gray Wolf in the Western U.S.

September 15, 2021
Contact(s):

Joe Szuszwalak,

303-236-4336,

[email protected]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has completed the initial review of two petitions filed to list gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the western U.S. as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service finds that the petitions present substantial, credible information indicating that a listing action may be warranted and will initiate a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S.

On June 1, 2021, the Service received a petition (dated May 26, 2021) to list the gray wolf Northern Rocky Mountain Distinct Population Segment (DPS) or a new western U.S. DPS as a threatened or endangered species under the ESA. The Service received a second, similar petition on July 29, 2021 (addendum). The Federal Register notice will serve as the 90-day finding for both petitions.

Under the ESA, a DPS is a portion of a species' or subspecies' population or range and is described geographically instead of biologic ally. The first petition proposes listing a Northern Rocky Mountain DPS consisting of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, the eastern one-third of Washington and Oregon, and a small portion of north-central Utah. Both petitions also propose some alternative Western U.S. DPS to include all, or part, of the Northern Rocky Mountain DPS states with the addition of California, Colorado, Nevada, and in one petition, northern Arizona.

The Service finds the petitioners present substantial information that potential increases in human-caused mortality may pose a threat to the gray wolf in the western U.S. The Service also finds that new regulatory mechanisms in Idaho and Montana may be inadequate to address this threat. Therefore, the Service finds that gray wolves in the western U.S. may warrant listing.

Substantial 90-day findings require only that the petitioner provide information that the proposed action may be warranted. The next steps for the Service include in-depth status reviews and analyses using the best available science and information to arrive at a 12-month finding on whether listing is warranted. If so, listing a species is done through a separate rulemaking process, with public notice and comment.

The public can play an important role by submitting relevant information to inform the in-depth status review through www.regulations.gov, Docket Number: FWS-HQ-ES-2021-0106, beginning September 17, 2021, upon publication in the Federal Register and will include details on how to submit comments.

The 90-day finding and petition review form associated with this announcement are now available for review.

Visit the Service online to learn more about gray wolves and the ESA petition process.

That only means you can't get them mounted

We will just relist SSS.

yea don't try to have em mounted

SSS

Federal government trampling states rights and demanding the outcome that they want. How can something be endangered when Alaska and Canada are full of them as is most of the northern states from Michigan to Montana? If going by the original home range standard, than elk, caribou and a whole bunch of other critters with large populations in some places should be banned from hunting everywhere since there population is “threatened” or nonexistent in places that had them two hundred years ago.

I don’t have a solution but this is a microcosm for why the right loses. Wolves are in no way endangered but our mentality is shoot and cover up. The left loses and refuses to except that outcome politically even when it’s pure B.S. They just reinvent a new standard even one as retarded as the one used in the Great Lakes states that “the wolves no longer have the home range that they did pre white settlement so therefore they’re endangered until they do.” And keep on fighting in the courts.

SO if population levels dropped what would stop the Feds from importing more Canadian wolves to bolster the "threatened" population?

Can anyone read?

Better yet understand what you read?

Wolves aren’t being relisted.

Funny too the sss guys won’t sss as they have yet to kill one when a hunter can legally kill lots.

What part of that sentence do you not understand Liberal C-ocksucker?

Therefore, the Service finds that gray wolves in the western U.S. may warrant listing.

Substantial 90-day findings require only that the petitioner provide information that the proposed action may be warranted. The next steps for the Service include in-depth status reviews and analyses using the best available science and information to arrive at a 12-month finding on whether listing is warranted. If so, listing a species is done through a separate rulemaking process, with public notice and comment.


What part of the word MAY do stupid old fuggs not understand?


Here I will help the old fuggs with leaning disability’s

Definition of may (Entry 1 of 4)
1a —used to indicate possibility

It'll slow down the trapping but not the shooting.

How many B&C wolves have you killed this you dumb pot bellied anti wolf hunting ginger! Lmao

I have killed 3 wolves one in each Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Something your fat old azz will never do.

You really aren’t stupid enough to think B&C scores wolves are you? My guess is yes. LOL


You still scared of driving on plowed snow packed roads? TFF