Wolf

Environmental and animal-rights groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on April 8, seeking to gain federal protection for wolves in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington.

 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Environmental and animal-welfare groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday, seeking federal protection for wolves in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Montana, responds to Fish and Wildlife rejecting in February a petition to list wolves the Northern Rocky Mountains as an endangered or a threaten species.

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