Finally a victory! Today a big first step was taken to protect Minnesota’s wolves from hunts, that were thrust upon them when the USFWS delisted wolves in the Great Lakes.
“A Minnesota Senate committee approved a bill Thursday that would put a five-year moratorium on wolf hunting in Minnesota.
The Senate Environment and Energy Committee approved the measure on a seven to six vote. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Chris Eaton, DFL-Brooklyn Center, said she thinks it’s irresponsible to hunt wolves so quickly after the animal was removed from the endangered species list”….mpr news
Minnesota’s wolf plan previously included a five-year moratorium on wolf hunts if canis lupus was ever federally delisted. BUT the Minnesota legislature removed that safeguard in 2011, several months before the USFWS stripped Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota wolves from the Endangered Species List.
Soon after, just as their fellow wolf states had done before them, Minnesota…
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