Northern Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Act

This bill would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to update, within one year, its 2008 monitoring plan for gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. After the plan is updated, the Secretary of the Interior would have to issue a rule removing gray wolves in that region from the Endangered Species Act list. For purposes of a 1978 federal wolf rule, wolves in the whole region would be counted as part of the Minnesota population. Within 30 days, the Service would set up an advisory committee of federal officials, Tribal representatives, state agency heads, and wolf experts to consult on the plan, the delisting rule, and a 5-year monitoring period afterward.

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Sponsors

• Tammy Baldwin Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors