The Trump Administration’s announcement today (Thursday) that it is removing gray wolves from U.S. Endangered Species Act protections will have significant impacts here in California.
This includes the ability to track the wolves as their population grows and to criminally charge people who kill the wild wolves.
Wolves have been protected under California’s Endangered Species Act since they began to wander into the state in 2011 from packs elsewhere in the West. The decision Thursday by the U.S. Department of Interior to “delist” the gray wolf from the federal Endangered Species Act weakens California’s efforts to manage its small but growing population.
