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Why Vampire movies always break all the Vampire rules.

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Colors of Fall

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Grey wolves: hunters or the hunted?

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First Wolf Killed in Idaho Hunt

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Logan Lynn: "Feed Me To The Wolves (Daniel Cartier Remix)" (2009)

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WOLVES HUNT MARCHING BAND!

Check out my group The Wolfpack and laugh until you howl.

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Top 5 Songs That Think They're Cooler Than You

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Great Lakes Wolves Back On Endangered List

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in... more

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Wolves losing protection in Northern Rockies

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Palin and the Wolves: Inside Alaska's Aerial Hunt

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Gov Palin approves poison gas for wolf hunts

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Abolishing Federally Funded Killing

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Federal agency seeks to remove gray wolf from protected list

"An official with the US Fish & Wildlife Service said the agency is looking for other ways to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list in the wake of a September court decision that returned the animal to protected status.

Delisting the wolf would give states such as Wisconsin more alternatives for dealing with problem animals in the resurgent population, though opponents such as the Humane Society of the United States oppose delisting because less protection could threaten recovery efforts and open the way to hunting.

Laura Ragan, the regional listing coordinator for the wildlife service in Minneapolis, said the deadline for appealing the federal court decision has passed, so an appeal, which Wisconsin wildlife officials had hoped to see, is no longer an option.

But she said the agency is now considering, among other things, publishing a new delisting rule that would address concerns raised in the lawsuit and allow the agency to remove the wolf from protected status.

The court ruling that placed the wolf back into protected status said the federal government failed to follow the provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The court said the government treated the Great Lakes gray wolves as a distinct population, separate from other wolf populations in the East and West, when it removed the animals from the list.

"Our Washington officials are still looking at all of our potential options," Ragan said.

Wisconsin wildlife officials are anxiously awaiting the federal agency's actions. They fear their inability to control problem wolves may be translating into growing sentiment against the animals and recovery efforts.

In a related development, the state Department of Natural Resources said last week that seven gray wolves were killed during the recent hunting season. Adrian Wydeven, a conservation biologist who oversees the state's wolf recovery efforts, said some of those wolves may have been killed deliberately and that the deaths are being investigated.

"We're seeing more of a growth in negative attitudes toward wolves,'' Wydeven said.

The gray wolf nearly disappeared from Wisconsin by the 1950s, mostly due to trapping and bounties. But federal and state protection and a DNR recovery program that protected habitat brought wolves loping back into Wisconsin from Minnesota. Now there are more than 600 wolves living in 138 packs throughout northern and central Wisconsin.

So successful was the comeback that in March 2007, the government removed the wolf in Great Lakes states from the endangered species list. Wisconsin wildlife officials welcomed the delisting because it allowed them to kill wolves that were preying on livestock or causing other problems. The agency was even able to issue special permits to some landowners, allowing them to kill problem wolves. While the wolf was delisted, 38 of the permits were issued and 45 problem wolves were killed.

That all changed in September when a federal judge ruled in favor of the humane society, which had challenged the government's decision to delist the wolf. One of the main issues cited by the judge was that the government didn't properly follow the provisions of the Endangered Species Act when it dealt with the approximate 4,000 wolves in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota as a separate and distinct population from gray wolves in other regions."

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