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US Court of Appeals Rules to Keep Michigan Wolves on Endangered Species List
Tuesday , 1, August 2017 DNR, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentThe U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today to keep wolves in the Great Lakes on the endangered species list after U.S. Fish and Wildlife ruled enough animals lived in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota to remove them from the list in 2011. In 2014, a Federal Judge put them back on the endangered species list after […]
Why Does Tom Casperson Hate Nature?
Monday , 16, February 2015 DNR, Environment, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentMichigan State Senator Tom Casperson recently pushed through a resolution meant to take wolves off of the endangered species list. Again. Wolves were returned to that list in December, 2014, after Michigan voters soundly defeated two ballot initiatives to stop wolf hunting in the state. As is the norm for Republicans in the 21st century, […]
Michigan Wolves Back On The Endangered Species List
Friday , 19, December 2014 Environment Leave a commentA U.S. District Judge today ruled that wolves living in the Great Lakes region must be returned to the federal endangered species list, which puts the animals back under federal protection and out of the hands of state wildlife management. Calling the 2012 decision, “arbitrary and capricious,” Judge Beryl Howell overturned the government decision to […]