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    Judge orders plan for releasing more red wolves into wild in NC
    JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press

    A judge has ordered the federal government to come up with a plan to release more endangered red wolves from breeding programs to bolster the dwindling wild population.

    U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle signed an order Thursday directing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to draft a plan by March 1 for releasing captive-bred wolves into the wolves' designated habitat in North Carolina.

    The preliminary ruling comes in a lawsuit filed late last year by red wolf conservation groups in a federal court in North Carolina, the only place in the world where the wolf roams wild outside of zoos or wildlife refuges.

    Noting that as few as seven wild red wolves remain, Boyle said in his ruling that "plaintiffs have demonstrated that extinction is a very real possibility in this case."

    The lawsuit had argued that the federal wildlife officials had violated the Endangered Species Act through actions that included a decision in 2015 to stop releasing captive-bred wolves to bolster the wild population. Since then, the federal agency has released one wolf from a wildlife refuge into the North Carolina habitat about a year ago.

    Lawyers for the Fish and Wildlife Service have argued in the case that the Endangered Species Act gives it "broad discretion in determining how to factor endangered species conservation into their decision making." A spokesman for the agency didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Friday afternoon.

    The wolf conservation groups that took the federal agency to court praised Boyle's decision.

    "We are grateful that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will finally abide by its responsibility to protect this critically endangered wolf," Ben Prater, Southeast program director at Defenders of Wildlife, said in a statement. "Releasing wolves into the wild is a common sense, science-backed approach to boost this population and stave off the red wolf's extinction. While the species has a long way to go, this is a major step in the right direction."

    Red wolves once occupied much of the Eastern U.S. but were driven to near extinction by trapping, hunting and habitat loss before they were reintroduced to North Carolina in 1987. Their range is limited to five North Carolina counties. Scientists at zoos and other sites have maintained a captive population of about 200 wolves in recent years.

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    Ive kept up with the red wolf project, sort of. Id love to see it work, but it just doesnt seem viable. The available range is too limited, coyotes too much to compete against.

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    Money laundering by the anti hunting establishment, in essence with a back end kick.

    Take from the taxpaying citizens and hunters, fund the program, decrease funding to wild game management and all the while introducing a critter that eats wild game and breeds with yotes. DNA studies have shown it is not even a real thing to begin with but hey par norm.
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    Not sure that I care too much either way, but I get to wack em with a tranq gun every couple of mos here in chas.


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    I hope those rough necks in Eastern NC run them down and kill every one they turn loose...


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    Isn’t it a watered down version of a red wolf. Seems like I heard the DNA is more coyote than wolf. Could be wrong because I’m not to informed on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PBiz View Post
    I hope those rough necks in Eastern NC run them down and kill every one they turn loose...


    With July Walker Hounds and Buckshot of course..
    There is a reason they haven’t taken hold. The locals hate them!

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