Unfortunately, we have some bad news for wolves! The state officials are planning to make its easier for hunters to kill the wolves that represent a problem in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. The new wolf management rules are expected by January 28, that is today, but one says that even lifting Endangered Species Act protection is possible.

On January 9, the federal officials already released the Final Revision of the Special Regulation for the Central Idaho and Yellowstone Area, in which they changed the 10j law regarding wolves in these three states, on behalf of Bush administration; they removed the wording that would have practically protected a wide number of the wolves in the Greater Yellowstone and central Idaho regions from being killed. The new law allows “states and tribes with approved wolf management plans and the people in those States more flexibility in managing nonessential experimental wolves,” “nonessential experimental” referring to those wolves that are not so necessary to the population of their species.

The officials are also thinking to remove some species of wolves from the Endangered Species Act, under which the gray wolf is still protected.

It is obvious that the recent changes have angered environmental groups, which are already protesting against the new regulation. But the officials argue that there are more than 1,300 wolves living in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, and they represent already a threat. When the officials reintroduced the animals in these protected areas, they expected them to bread much slowly than they actually did.