USFW extending the comment period regarding Federal delisting of Wolves in the Great Lakes region............The Feds are allowing more information to be presented about whether the States would have to manage Gray wolves......(or).....both Gray wolves and Eastern Wolves.....(or) manage gray wolves with the Feds still managing Eastern Wolves.......The debate continues on whether one or two species of wolves exist in this part of the world...................We have suggested that it is unwieldly for the States and/or the Feds to manage two nearly identical looking wolf species(if it turns out there are two species)..............We want the States to manage the Wolves not by reducing populations by 2/3 as is the goal of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.............but rather to manage the wolves with all stakeholders involved and with ecosytem health as top priority,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Manage for the health of the land, not just for farmer/hunter needs

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What is the status of gray wolf protection?
		The U.S. Fish andWildlife Service is giving the public additional time to comment on a plan to drop gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the federal endangered species list. The agency has proposed removing federal  protections for wolves in Michigan, Minnesota  and Wisconsin.   A public comment period ended July fifth, but  officials have decided to give scientists andothers more time to provide information on the possibility that the region has two distinct species of wolves...gray wolves and Eastern timber wolves. The new comment period will run from August  26 to September 26.  Spokeswoman Georgia Parham says the agency still plans to make a  final decision on whether to remove the gray  wolf from the endangered list by the end of the year.