On again! Off again! On again! Off again! On again??????? This describes the circle of life for the grey wolf since 1974. In the late 1960's there were only about 1,000 wolves remaining in all of the United States territories. But then in 1974 wolves were listed as an endangered species. There is an old saying "If you want something good to go away stop being thankful for it". Thankfully the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services listed the gray wolf. They cared enough. Before European colonization, No

Gray wolves in the United States Lower 48 have rebounded from just a few hundred in the 1970s to ~6,000 wolves today (not to mention the more than 10,000 in Alaska)! That recovery is a direct result of the Endangered Species Act, strong science, and decades of on-the-ground conservation. On Thursday the House passed H.R. 845, delisting the gray wolf from the ESA, barring frivolous litigation and judicial review, and returning management to the states — recognizing this recovery while allowing fo