Gray wolves will be removed from the list of threatened and endangered species in the western Great Lakes, including Wisconsin, and portions of the northern Rocky Mountain states, the Obama administration announced Friday.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar upheld a January decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the wolf.
"The recovery of the gray wolf throughout significant portions of its historic range is one of the great success stories of the Endangered Species Act," Salazar said in a statement. "When it was listed as endangered in 1974, the wolf had almost disappeared from the continental United States. Today, we have more than 5,500 wolves, including more than 1,600 in the Rockies."
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