Sentences with phrase «since gray wolves»

Since gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, they have been very successful — perhaps too successful.

Not exact matches

The courtroom battle had raged since the Bush administration had announced in January 2009 its decision to take gray wolves — 66 of which were reintroduced to the region in 1995 after their forebears were wiped out by hunters and ranchers a century earlier — off of the Endangered Species List.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

After years of political controversy, bureaucratic turmoil, and fluctuating populations, around eighty Mexican gray wolves roam the Southwest today, more than at any time since the government reintroduced them to the wild in 1998.

November 12, 2010 — The Center and Defenders of Wildlife — represented by the Western Environmental Law Center — intervened in a lawsuit seeking the trapping and shooting of endangered Mexican gray wolves, the third since reintroduction began in 1998.