Bush Administration and the Wolves: The Battle Continues

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-01-15 08:59:00 UTC
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Just a week ago, Bush did something uncharacteristically positive for the environment and for animals by creating an expansive marine conservation area (see the list of links at the end of this post for more on that), and he apparently thinks he has to make up for that by going after the wolves--yet again. For the third time, Bush is trying to delist the gray wolves, this time in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Montana.

See the following articles and blog posts:

NRDC Switchboard:

LA Times: Bush Administration to Strip Wolves of Federal Protections—Except for Wyoming

Articles and posts on the marine national monuments:

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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