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Hunting may resume in some areas; environmental and animal rights groups plan to sue
Wolves taken off endangered list
BY MATTHEW BROWN
BILLINGS, Mont. — Wolves in parts of the Northern Rockies and the Great Lakes region came off the endangered species list last Monday, opening them to public hunts in some states for the first time in decades.
Federal officials said the population of gray wolves in those areas had recovered and was large enough to survive on its own.
The animals were listed as endangered in 1974, after they had been wiped out across the lower 48 states by hunting and government-sponsored poisoning.
"We've exceeded our recovery goals for nine consecutive years, and we fully expect those trends will continue," said Seth Willey, regional recovery coordinator for
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver.
With the delisting, state wildlife agencies would have full control over the animals. States such as Idaho and Montana plan to resume hunting the animals this fall, but no hunting has been proposed in the Great Lakes region.
Ranchers and livestock groups, particularly in the Rockies, have pushed to strip the endangered status in hopes that hunting would keep the population in check.
About 300 wolves in Wyoming will remain on the list because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected the state's plan for a "predator zone" where wolves could be shot on sight.
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal and a coalition of livestock and hunting groups, have announced a lawsuit against the federal
government over the decision. Freudenthal, a Democrat, claimed "political expediency" was behind the rejection of his state's wolf plan.
Wolves were taken off the endangered list in the Northern Rockies.
gered list in the Northern Rockies — including Wyoming — for about five months last year. After environmentalists sued, a federal judge in Montana restored the protections and cited Wyoming's predator zone as a main reason. In the Great Lakes, the animal was off the list beginning in 2007 until a judge in Washington last September ordered them protected again.
The delisting review began under the administration of President George W. Bush and the proposal was upheld by President Barack Obama's administration after an internal review. In a recent letter to several members of Congress, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wrote that he was "confident that science justifies the delisting of the gray wolf."
Environmental and animal rights groups have also said they planned to sue over the delisting, claiming that there are still not enough wolves to guarantee their survival. The groups point to Idaho's plan to kill up to 100 wolves which were
believed to have killed elk.
Willey said his agency projected there would be between 973 and 1302 wolves in the Northern Rockies under state management, a number well above the 300 wolves set as the original benchmark for the animal's recovery.
More than 1,300 wolves roam the mountains of Montana and Idaho and an estimated 4,000 live in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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BY JAMES HANNAH
Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio — Ivan Nogalo can often hear small planes buzzing over his machine shop in Cleveland.
Economy keeps potential pilots grounded
"You want to be up there," the 33-year-old said.
But Nogala can't be. The would-bel pilot has been grounded
because the economy has forced him to tighten his belt.
It's the same for Ryan Fisher, who spent an estimated $10,000 on flying lessons before losing his job with a real estate developer. The 37-year-old was two weeks short of being certified as a private pilot when he couldn't afford further training.
“It’s frustrating,” said Fisher, of Cleveland Heights. “I miss being
up in the airplane, that sense of freedom. It's kind of transcendental"
The slumping economy has forced some student pilots to put their dreams of flying on hold, threatened to accelerate the decline of the U.S. pilot population and put a financial chokehold on flight schools.
The number of U.S. pilots has fallen more than 25 percent from a 1980 peak of about 827,000 to about 590,000 at the end of 2008, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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While there are no more recent figures, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has seen some anecdotal evidence that the ecoo-
my is taking a toll, said Chris Dancy, spokesman for the Frederick, Md. based organization.
It usually costs between $6,000 and $9,000 to get a private pilot's license, according to Dancy.
Flying lessons are down 50 percent from a year ago at the New Flyers Association, a flight club at the Ohio State University Airport in Columbus that has seven airplanes and 120 members. President Dick Willis blamed the economy and uncertain financial futures of the students.
"They don't know what's going to happen," Willis said. "They're keeping their money in their mattresses."
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