Reintroduction of Wolves Designated As Research Paper

Given these condition, wolf population will recover rapidly4.

Part 2: The management of the wolves from the information given it the congressional hearing. Congress decided that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) will reintroduce the gray wolf (Canis lupus), that is currently considered an endangered species, into Yellowstone National Park, which is located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

Congress also decided to follow Alternative One namely that the wolves would be classified as experimental wolves according to section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act).

Congress chose to do this since they adjudged the gray wolf populations to be expunged from most of the Western United States and that only a small population of the gray wolves remain in the extreme northwestern Montana, and in part of Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington where migrating wolves from Montana and Canada accidentally settled.

The objective of the reintroduction idea is to reestablish a viable wolf population in the Yellowstone area, which is one of three wolf recovery areas identified in the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan.

Potential results of the project were evaluated in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was completed in May 1994, and the project will not conflict with public uses of park lands, wilderness areas, or surrounding lands.

The project will be commenced in November 18, 1994 5

Sources

Department of the Interior, part VII

Fish and Wildlife Service: 50 CFR Part 17; RIN 1018-AC86 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1994-11-22/html/94-28746.htm

Final. Env. Impact statement. The reintroduction of greywolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?seq=7&id=mdp.39015032494257&size=75&view=image&page=root&orient=0

1 Final. Env. Impact statement. The reintroduction of greywolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho, pgs 2-4

2 Ibid. 2-18

3 Ibid. 2-29

4 Ibid. 2-36

5 Department of the Interior, part VII. 50 CFR Part 17; RIN 1018-AC86 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1994-11-22/html/94-28746.htm)