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Friends,
As political pressure grows to delist wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains Western Watersheds Project stands up to the pressure.
Several of WWP's co-plaintiffs in litigation that successfully re-instated Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in August 2010 have agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and are asking the federal court for Montana to partially stay that decision and delist wolves in Idaho and Montana from protections of the Endangered Species Act.
Read the terms of the proposed settlement
Western Watersheds Project along with our co-plaintiffs the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater oppose the proposed settlement and will ask the federal court to deny the request to partially vacate its August 2010 decision and delist wolves in Idaho and Montana.
Western Watersheds Project does not support the settlement for the following reasons:
- The settlement will result in wolves being killed in Idaho and Montana beyond their ability to recover a viable population.
- Western Watersheds Project supports the laws of the United States. The proposed settlement asks a federal judge to authorize the breaking of federal law.
- The proposed settlement includes no requirements to protect any specific minimum number of wolves in Idaho and Montana.
- Western Watersheds Project does not believe that this proposed settlement will prevent or dissuade Congress from taking legislative action to delist wolves.
Western Watersheds Project is committed by science and law to the protection of wolves across the United States.