The White House announced an executive order signed by President Trump on September 4 that directs the U. S. Secretary of the Interior to decide within 90 days whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves. The order, titled 'Supporting America’s Ranchers,' calls for Secretary Doug Burgum to evaluate if wolf populations have met recovery criteria and to prepare recommendations for delisting or downlisting. This action follows the near extermination of wolves in the Western U. S. by the 1940s, after which they were added to the Endangered Species List in 1974.
White House moves to delist gray wolves
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- ✓The White House announced an executive order signed by President Trump on September 4“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sept. 4 giving the U.S. secretary of interior 90 days to decide whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves in the United States.”
- ✓The executive order directs the U. S. Secretary of the Interior to decide within 90 days whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sept. 4 giving the U.S. secretary of interior 90 days to decide whether to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves in the United States.”
- ✓The order is titled 'Supporting America’s Ranchers'“The Supporting America’s Ranchers executive order calls for Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum to decide within 90 days whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves have met their recovery criteria and to begin the process of delisting or downlisting them.”
- ✓The order calls for Secretary Doug Burgum to evaluate if wolf populations have met recovery criteria“The executive order also calls for Burgum to prepare a legislative recommendation for Trump to fully delist or downlist wolves and, upon determination that recovery criteria have been met, encourage states to delist wolves and revise state standards for the killing of wolves in order to help ranchers.”
- ✓The order calls for Secretary Doug Burgum to prepare recommendations for delisting or downlisting“The executive order also calls for Burgum to prepare a legislative recommendation for Trump to fully delist or downlist wolves and, upon determination that recovery criteria have been met, encourage states to delist wolves and revise state standards for the killing of wolves in order to help ranchers.”
- ✓The action follows the near extermination of wolves in the Western U. S. by the 1940s“Wolves are a native species that was almost completely eliminated in the Western United States by the 1940s through a widespread government extermination campaign backed by congressional bounties and the extensive use of poisoning.”
- ⚠Wolves were added to the Endangered Species List in 1974No usable supporting receipt — unverified.
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