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.