delisting the wolf
States Face a Big Bill to Manage Wolves
By Dana Green, 3-28-06
In a story out of Billings, the AP takes a look at who will pay to manage wolf populations in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming once they leave the endangered species list.
Since wolves were reintroduced in the three states over a decade ago, the federal government has largely footed the approximately $2.7 million annual bill for their recovery, an amount one wolf specialist called “ridiculous.”
''The goal is to recover species and give them to the states, and we can then put our resources into species with other needs,'' said a Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman.
Idaho officials, for their part, said they won’t set up a management plan without the federal funding in their pockets to do so.
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