A federal judge has denied a request from Colorado’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the reintroduction of gray wolves, allowing the state to proceed with its plan to bring in wolves from Oregon.
The lawsuit from the cattle industry alleges that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately review the potential impacts of releasing wolves in Colorado.
However, the judge ruled in favor of the state and federal agencies, citing a compensation program for livestock killed by wolves and the public interest in meeting the will of the people who voted for wolf reintroduction. (Trending: Obama Reveals His Fear For Joe Ahead Of 2024)
This decision comes after gray wolves were exterminated across most of the United States in the 1930s and received endangered-species protections in 1975.
Since then, they have rebounded in certain regions of the country.
“Wolves have since rebounded in the Great Lakes region. They’ve also returned to numerous western states — Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and, most recently, California — following an earlier reintroduction effort that brought wolves from Canada to central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s,” the report noted.
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