GOP federal budget bill proposes lifting wolf protections

An AP article posted to today’s Flathead Beacon . . .

A Republican budget bill would strip gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protections across most of the Northern Rockies.

A two-sentence provision tucked into the GOP’s continuing budget resolution directs Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reissue a 2009 rule that took wolves off the endangered list in Montana, Idaho and parts of Oregon, Washington and Utah.

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