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In 1973, the gray wolf was brought under the full protection of the Federal Endangered Species Act when only 500 to 1000 animals remained in the wild and only in the state of Minnesota. This was mostly due to legal, year-round hunting and trapping which accounted for the killing of around 200 wolves a year. In addition, another 50 to 100 fell victim each year to a bounty offered by the state for the pelts of wolves killed in agricultural areas as part of Minnesota's Directed Predator Control Program. With the granting of endangered species protection, wolves could no longer be legally killed in Minnesota. In 1978, with wolf populations making a comeback, the Minnesota wolf was down listed from endangered to ”threatened”. Only federal and state government personnel were allowed to kill wolves in response to rancher’s complains of confirmed livestock killings by wolves. In addition, illegal killings have continued in the state and some estimate that 250 to 450 wolves are killed secretly in Minnesota every year. Despite the illegal killings and governmental controls, wolf populations have grown under ESA protection. It is estimated that there are around 2500 wolves living in Minnesota today.

In neighboring Wisconsin and Michigan, it is estimated that around 200 wolves exist in each state. In the summer of 1998, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Jamie Rappaport Clark announced that the FWS would begin regulatory action to “de-list” or take away the ESA status of the wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan and return management to the individual states.

MSadly for the wolves, state legislatures and state departments of natural resources have not changed their feelings about wolves in the past 27 years. As expected, last year the Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill (H.F. 1415) that would legalize hunting and trapping of wolves and give livestock owners almost unrestricted license to shoot wolves found on their property. A more moderate (but hardly pro-wolf) Senate bill (S.F. 1543) was shelved by its sponsor after it was amended to further loosen restrictions on landowner killing of wolves.

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