Trump gives feds 90 days to consider removing endangered species protections for wolves
A gray wolf in snow. (File photo courtesy of Eric Cole/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sept. 4 giving the U.S. secretary of interior 90 days to decide whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves in the United States.
The Supporting America’s Ranchers executive order calls for Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum to decide within 90 days whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves have met their recovery criteria and to begin the process of delisting or downlisting them.