HFW supports and signs petition to US Fish and Wildlife Service, filed by Humane Society (HSUS), asking to reclassify grey wolves under the Endangered Species Act at a reduced level of protection to avert congressional action.
Interviewed by Star Tribune, Maureen Hackett, president and founder of Minnesota-based Howling for Wolves, said her organization supports the petition as a way to deal with members of Congress who are preparing legislation to undo a Dec. 19 federal court decision that restored certain federal protections for wolves and ended short-lived wolf hunting and trapping in Upper Great Lakes states.
“We think it’s a good compromise,” said Hackett, whose group wants to ensure an end to recreational killing of wolves as part of state wildlife management plans.
HFW supports and signs petition to US Fish and Wildlife Service, filed by Humane Society (HSUS), asking to reclassify grey wolves under the Endangered Species Act at a reduced level of protection to avert congressional action.
Interviewed by Star Tribune, Maureen Hackett, president and founder of Minnesota-based Howling for Wolves, said her organization supports the petition as a way to deal with members of Congress who are preparing legislation to undo a Dec. 19 federal court decision that restored certain federal protections for wolves and ended short-lived wolf hunting and trapping in Upper Great Lakes states.
“We think it’s a good compromise,” said Hackett, whose group wants to ensure an end to recreational killing of wolves as part of state wildlife management plans.
Read the HSUS petition here: Petition to Reclassify Gray Wolves as Threatened in the Conterminus United States Under the Endangered Species Act.PDF