Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater are consulting with their attorneys about challenging the wolf delisting rider in court, on constitutional grounds.
Please click on the links below to visit their websites. Show your support with generous donations.
They showed courage and conviction, standing firm for wolves while the other ten plaintiffs brokered a deal with USFWS.
Of course the “settlement” by the 10 groups was ultimately rejected by Judge Molloy.
He stated in part:
But the victory was short-lived because the Senate allowed Jon Tester (D-MT) to slip a wolf delisting rider into a must-pass appropriations bill. 81 Senators voted for the budget bill and in turn sold wolves down the river. They even allowed the language of the rider to be rewritten so it wouldn’t jeopardize Wyoming’s court case, in pursuit of delisting their wolves. The rider reads:
“Before the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this division, the Secretary of the Interior shall reissue the final rule published on April 2, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 15123 et seq.) without regard to any other provision of statute or regulation that applies to issuance of such rule. Such reissuance (including this section) shall not be subject to judicial review and shall not abrogate or otherwise have any effect on the Order and Judgment issued by the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming in Case Numbers 09-CV-118J and 09-CV-138J on November 18, 2010.”
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Just to remind everyone:
Settlement Between 10 Environmental Groups and USFWS
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=238576
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Groups lay out opposition to proposed wolf settlement
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Judge Blocks Deal Lifting Protections For Wolves
by The Associated Press
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/10/135287332/judge-blocks-deal-on-protections-for-wolves
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Endangered Wolves Sacrificed in Budget Deal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/endangered-wolves-sacrifi_b_847673.html
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Afraid for Wolves
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/news/2011/april/afraid-for-wolves.html
Photo: Courtesy All About Wolves
Posted in: Wolf Wars, endangered species act
Tags: wolves in peril, wolf scapegoating, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, political assault on the ESA