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Judge: Feds must reconsider protections for gray wolves in the West
MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AUG 5 – Judge Molloy ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to use best science and ignored threats and historic range, vacating the 2024 denial of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves.
- In his decision, Judge Molloy found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by wrongly removing protections for gray wolves last year.
- The Center for Biological Diversity and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies challenged the agency’s wolf delisting, alleging it ignored historical range and best science.
- The judge ordered regulators to revisit protections, citing reliance on flawed data and that environmental groups were `generally correct` about state commitments.
- Molloy’s order maintains gray wolves’ protected status while the agency has 60 days to reconsider ESA protections and may appeal the decision.
- That status could change if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds Western wolf populations vulnerable enough to relist under the ESA, as the court ordered the agency to re-analyze threats using the best available science.
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Court ruling could lead to more gray wolf protections in eastern Oregon, Washington
Advocates for gray wolves won a partial victory in court on Tuesday.Federal officials violated the Endangered Species Act when they determined these predators don’t warrant protections in parts of six states in the inland West, Judge Donald W. Molloy with the U.S. District Court of Montana ruled. The decision includes wolves in parts of eastern Oregon and Washington.Molloy is sending the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service back to the drawing board t…
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Judge: Feds must reconsider protections for gray wolves in the West
Environmental groups on Tuesday cheered a ruling by a federal judge in Missoula, ordering federal regulators back to the drawing board to consider endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Western U.S.
Court: Western wolves wrongly denied Endangered Species Act protections
Today, a federal district court in Missoula ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when it determined that gray wolves in the western U.S. do not warrant federal protections. Today’s ruling means that the Service’s finding that gray wolves in the West do not qualify for listing is vacated and sent back to the agency for a new decision, consistent with the ESA and best available science.In January,…
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