Gray Wolf conservation in the Northern Rockies: Can we protect wolves and ranchers?
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. After hundreds of years of persecution in the United States, in 1978 the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). listed. gray wolves (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which gave them federal protection from hunting, killing, and otherwise harassing. Following this protection, in 1995 and 1996, 31 wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another 23 were released in Idaho.
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