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Humane Society Disappointed In USFWS Wolf Decision

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A spokesperson for the state chapter of the Humane Society of the United States says they're disappointed in last week's action by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about wolf classification.

A petition by several groups called on the agency to reclassify gray wolves as threatened across the U.S. That petition was rejected. A federal judge last December threw out an Obama administration decision to remove the gray wolf population in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list — a decision that will ban further wolf hunting and trapping in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Melissa Tedrowe from the Humane Society of the United States says the rejection was a disappointment...

"....the compromise supported by our coalistion was a middle ground approach intended to address many stakeholders concerns concerning gray wolves and we think this is a missed opportunity plain and simple..."

Tedrowe says the petition was a compromise between the current endangered protections and from what she calls anti-wolf factions in Congress wanting to take away all protections. A threatened classification would have continued federal oversight and funding for wolf recovery projects, but would have allowed for specific wolf problems such as livestock depredation.

The Wisconsin DNR declined to comment on the federal decision, saying they will still studying the response.

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