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A federal judge in California has restored federal protections to gray wolf populations in the Lower 48 (as this wording is a little confusing, note that this ruling does not affect wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming).
A U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of California reversed a policy made during former United States President Donald Trump's administration that removed federal protection for gray wolves. The order applies to 44 of the lower 48 states and received praise from environmental groups.
Hunters and farmers were angry over wolf attacks on big game herds and livestock.
Gray wolves across much of the U.S., including in Minnesota, have regained the federal protections that had been stripped away nearly two years ago.
Wildlife advocates had argued state-sponsored hunting threatened to reverse the gray wolf’s recovery over the past several decades.