Grey Wolves in Great Lakes Re-Listed

In September 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reinstated protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies after they had been taken off the endangered species list earlier this year.

The same month a federal judge also reversed a 2007 ruling to de-list the wolves in the western Great Lakes region.

U.S. District Judge Donald Malloy placed an injunction on the de-listing process for the Northern Rockies wolf population. This was followed by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman's decision to halt de-listing of the Great Lakes wolf population. Friedman cited the FWS failure to consider the species' recovery nationwide. Looking at the wolf poplations in "distinct population segments" was ruled inadequate.