Feds Consider Moving Grey Wolf to State Control
Carrie Hutton
You can help the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decide how to oversee Wisconsin’s gray wolf population in the future.
It’s proposing to take Midwestern gray wolves off the federal list of endangered and threatened species so that wolf management would fall back to the state’s control.
One expert said Wisconsin’s gray wolf population dropped to 15 back in 1985 when a recovery plan began, but at last count the wolves number between 450 and 520.
Adrian Wydeven, a DNR conservation biologist, said, “We’re at a level now where we no longer need to be listed as a threatened or endangered species by the federal government, so we’re hoping we can complete this action fairly quickly and return the management to the state of Wisconsin.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking comments on the proposal through June.