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In a preliminary injunction issued Friday, Judge Molloy of the District Montana, in Defenders of Wildlife v. Hall (D. Mont. Doc. No. CV-08-56) ordered the wolf DPS put back on the ESA threatened list, pending resolution of the plaintiffs' NEPA and ESA claims.  (See the NYT treatment here).  The court's decision hinged upon its v ...

For those interested, here are some links pertaining to the recent federal court decision that reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service news release (originally pointed out by Jonathan Adler) "Judge sends wolves back to feds," Sublette Examiner & ...

Today's Casper Star-Tribune contains a nice summary of the gray wolf injunction, including reaction to the decision from Ed Bangs, the federal gray wolf recovery coordinator.  In the article, Bangs asserts that one of the central assumptions of the worst-case scenario for the wolf that led in part to the decision is "patently impossi ...

Judge Friedman of the District of Columbia District Court today vacated the Service's 2007 rule designating the Western Great Lakes distinct population segment of wolves and delisting the same.  The court held that the ESA is ambiguous as to whether the Service has the power to reconstitute an existing listed species as several DPSs, and ...

Earlier this year, two district court—one in Montana and one in DC—overturned the Service's delisting of two grey wolf populations:  the Great Lakes and Northern Rocky Mountains DPSs.  This article discusses the ongoing scientific debate among conservation biologists over the status of the Great Lakes population.  ...

In September, Judge Friedman of the District of Columbia District Court overturned the Service's delisting of a Great Lakes population of gray wolf, and remanded the matter to the Service for further analysis.  (See here for previous commentary from this blog.)  The decision is criticized in this article from the Green Bay Press Gaz ...

Yesterday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer had a story entitled "Idaho to other states: take my wolf, please."  The story discusses Idaho's efforts to deal with the recent Obama administration decision to put off the delisting of the gray wolf.  Of note: Moscow Republican Sen. Gary Schroeder, who owns a fur-trading b ...

Yesterday's Missoulian contained a story on the delisting of the gray wolf in Montana and Idaho. The wolf will remain protected under the ESA in Wyoming. On the issue of a state-centric listing status, EarthJustice's Jenny Harbine states that "a state-by-state approach to delisting is unlawful." This would seem to conflict with th ...

The decision to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act in several states, while at the same time maintaining federal protection in Wyoming, will no doubt be the subject of litigation in the months and years to come. Today's Los Angeles Times has a brief roundup of the differing viewpoints behind the forthcoming … ...

Writing in Monday's New York Times, Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg expressed his displeasure over the partial delisting of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act. Although Klinkenborg acknowledged the remarkable surpassing of wolf population recovery goals, something still isn't quite right for him. According to Klin ...