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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 226829" data-attributes="member: 337"><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Yrsa'">I’m responding to Brenda Peterson’s July 25 letter where she objected to the proposal to delist the gray wolf from the protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act. The ESA was enacted in 1973 to not only protect imperiled species from extinction, but also to promote the recovery of those species to population levels that would eventually preclude further protection and thus allow for delisting.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Yrsa'">Science-based management plans, developed by a team of wildlife experts, established measurable recovery goals for the Western Great Lakes population of gray wolves, the population which Peterson may have been referring to. Those management plans have allowed that distinct population of gray wolves to expand their numbers to levels that far exceed the original recovery goals. Thus, delisting of that population is warranted and should be viewed as an ESA success story.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Yrsa'">Peterson argues that delisting should not be undertaken because so much of the gray wolf’s historic range is devoid of wolves. What she fails to acknowledge is those areas are dominated by humans and human-induced landscape changes that include intensive agriculture and urbanization. Those historic ranges are not suitable habitat for wolves; however, the current range of the gray wolf provides the habitat that has allowed that population to exceed the ESA recovery goals.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #CCCCCC"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #CCCCCC"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></p></p> <p style="text-align: left"></span></span></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #CCCCCC"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #CCCCCC"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #CCCCCC"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #444444"><span style="font-family: 'Yrsa'">Wolves are an iconic and charismatic species, similar to the bald eagle, which was removed from ESA protection in 2007 after the population exceeded its recovery goals. When science and not emotion is used to develop management plans species, like the gray wolf, can and should be delisted from the ESA protections.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong>Phil Mastrangelo, Mandan</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>

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