Multimillion-dollar animalextremist organizations don ’ t care about science or math unless the numbers add to their bottom line and advance their ideological agenda . Proving this point , three of the biggest , most wellfunded and dangerous radical organizations have sued the U . S . Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ) because the agency didn ’ t agree to their demands . The Center for Biological Diversity ( CBD ), Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS ) and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit to force the government to relist wolves found in Idaho , Montana
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and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act ( ESA ). Delisted by Congress in 2011 , wolves in these states fall under the Northern Rocky Mountain Distinct Population Segment ( NRM ), and their numbers in each state have remained stable or have grown every year since delisting .
But those facts and the best available science don ’ t matter to activist organizations , the same ones who have also stymied delisting of wolves in the Western Great Lakes for 20 years and forced the reintroduction of the alpha predators in Colorado . The groups , who “ wish to see viable gray wolf populations in
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suitable habitat in all significant portions of the wolf ’ s historic range in the lower-48 states ,” petitioned the service for relisting under the ESA in May 2021 . The petition claimed , in part , that state management of gray wolves , including well-regulated hunting and trapping , is an “ immediate threat ” to wolf populations that will result in “ harmful exploitation and needless persecution .”
USFWS , following the best available science , as required by the ESA and requested by CBD , denied the relisting petition in February . The service concluded that gray wolves in the NRM are not a distinct population segment that
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