House passes bill to delist gray wolves

摘要

The House today narrowly passed a bill that would remove federal protections for most of the country's gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act.H.R. 6784. from Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), would remove the species' protections in the Lower 48 by the end of fiscal 2019 and block its delisting in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes from further judicial review. It passed 196-180.The vote is a win for agriculture and sportsmen's groups, which say the predator's populations have recovered to a point that endangers cattle."Currently, families living in rural America have no legal actions available to deal with gray wolf attacks due to their federally protected status," nearly 20 groups wrote in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).Conservation groups, on the other hand, said that the decision should be left to scientists, not Congress.