Biden Administration Urged to Release Critical Records on Wildlife Imports biologicaldiversity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from biologicaldiversity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For Immediate Release, June 9, 2021
Contact:
Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748, azaccardi@biologicaldiversity.org
Rodi Rosensweig, The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society Legislative Fund, (202) 809-8711, rrosensweig@humanesociety.org
Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org
Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755, gary@friendsoftheclearwater.org
Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208, jbleich@defenders.org
Forest Service Protections Sought for Wolves in Idaho, Montana Wildernesses
BOZEMAN,
Mont. A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups, represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice, today asked the U.S. Forest Service to issue new protections for wolves in designated wilderness areas following Idaho and Montana’s enactment of a rash of aggressive anti-wolf laws.
The coalition of wildlife advocacy groups is being represented by the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice.
A petition was submitted to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and top Forest Service officials asking the agency to enact measures to protect wolves in National Forest wilderness areas from new Idaho and Montana laws enacted during their 2021 legislative sessions.
A release from the Center for Biological Diversity says the anti-wolf laws target up to 1,800 wolves across the two states. One goal of the laws is to artificially inflate elk populations to levels last seen in the mid-1990s, before wolves were reintroduced to their historic range in the Northern Rockies.