Good News For the Grey Wolf

The Grey wolves have been on the endangered species lists since late 19th century until around 1967. Bounty hunting was so wide spread that it wiped out the wolf population in 48 states with the exceptions of northeastern Minnesota and lsle Royal, Michigan.

      The Rocky Mountain was the first site for recolonization of the wolves in the early 1980s. The wolves were reintroduce to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s. By the year 2006 the population increased by 134 wolves and another 1,300 by 2009.  Washington and Oregon both reported wolves returning in the year 2005.

    The endanger wolves did create some controversy between the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the northern Rockies gray wolf in 2008, but decision was overturned after conservationists who argued that the recovery plan goal was outdated.  This was the first time in the Endangered Species Act, that Congress overruled the courts and the delisting of the Northern Rockies Gray Wolves.

    Hunting guidelines are in place in all of the regions where wolves live and breed.  Each state has it's limit for public harvest and is monitored closely.

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