By Leslie Stratmoen
U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming joined a bipartisan majority of her colleagues on Wednesday to vote down an amendment designed to strip gray wolf language from the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2016.
Lummis, along with a bipartisan group of members of Congress from the Western Great Lakes region, helped write and secure the language to restore the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decisions to return management of the gray wolf to the State of Wyoming and the states in the Western Great Lakes region. The provision also ensures that these science-based decisions are protected from further litigation.
The information comes directly from her office. In the statement, she says the science has spoken, despite the naysaying of groups who have made a business out of litigating on species like the gray wolf. Wolves in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes area have recovered, she says, and will remain so under the capable management of the states.