Trump Plan to Delist Wolves Greeted With Cheers and Jeers
President Donald Trump’s Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced plans on March 6 to lift protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. Predictably, the announcement was immediately both praised and condemned. When the issue is wolves, it’s rural communities versus urbanites, Big Media, Big Green NGOs, and entrenched bureaucrats of the DC Swamp. And up until now, the lavishly funded urbanite wolf lobby has been winning most of the rounds. The Trump administration's announcement could signal a sea-change toward the other direction.
“This is welcome news to farmers and ranchers,” said the American Farm Bureau Federation in a press release. “The agency’s intent to delist the gray wolf is a triumph of common sense we all should herald as a conservation success story.”
“There are more than 5,000 gray wolves in the United States and more than 10 times as many over the Canadian...
