In the fall, members of Congress tried once again to attach a wolf-related rider to a must-pass budget bill, as Senator Tester had done in 2011. This version would have reversed both Judge Jackson and Judge Howell’s rulings, legalizing wolf hunting in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Like Tester’s rider, the language in the measure would have prevented a judge from reversing the move. But this time, things were different. Perhaps mindful of the overwhelmingly negative public response to Fish and Wildlife’s proposal to delist wolves nationwide, twenty-five senators, led by Barbara
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“In the fall, members of Congress tried once again to attach a wolf-related rider to a must-pass budget bill, as Senator Tester had done in 2011. This version would have reversed both Judge Jackson and Judge Howell’s rulings, legalizing wolf hunting in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Like Tester’s rider, the language in the measure would have prevented a judge from reversing the move. But this time, things were different. Perhaps mindful of the overwhelmingly negative public response to Fish and Wildlife’s proposal to delist wolves nationwide, twenty-five senators, led by Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, signed a letter to President Obama urging him to veto any budget bill that undermined protection for endangered species.”
