Wyoming, Feds Agree on Wolf "Management"

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/may/25/052502100.html

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming and the federal government have reached an agreement on how the state would manage the wolf population after its protection under the Threatened and Endangered Species Act is lifted.

The agreement should allow Wyoming to be included with Montana and Idaho in the process of removing federal protections for wolves in the northern Rockies, possibly by early 2008, said Mitch King, regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver.

He had warned recently that Wyoming risked being left out of that process because the state hadn't submitted an acceptable management plan.

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The species would be protected inside Yellowstone and adjoining wilderness areas. A permanent management area would be set in northwestern Wyoming where the state would manage wolves as trophy game animals, but outside its boundaries, the animals would be treated as predators that could be shot on sight.

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