HELL YES!
Judge Rules Against Wolf Downgrade
February 01, 2005 1:27 PM EST
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A federal judge has ruled the Bush administration
violated the Endangered Species act when it downgraded populations of
the gray wolf from endangered to threatened.
In a ruling released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones in
Portland rescinded the April 2003 decision by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service that divided wolf range into three areas, and reclassified the
eastern and western populations as threatened instead of endangered.
The court order rescinds rules that allow ranchers to shoot wolves on
sight if they are attacking livestock, said Michael Robinson of the Center
for Biological Diversity, one of the 19 environmental groups that brought
the lawsuit.
February 01, 2005 1:27 PM EST
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A federal judge has ruled the Bush administration
violated the Endangered Species act when it downgraded populations of
the gray wolf from endangered to threatened.
In a ruling released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones in
Portland rescinded the April 2003 decision by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service that divided wolf range into three areas, and reclassified the
eastern and western populations as threatened instead of endangered.
The court order rescinds rules that allow ranchers to shoot wolves on
sight if they are attacking livestock, said Michael Robinson of the Center
for Biological Diversity, one of the 19 environmental groups that brought
the lawsuit.