Season One - Episode Two: Smoke and Mirrors Many of the players' minor choices throughout the game involve whether to be kind and inclusive to Snow, or be harsh and shut her out.Īt the very end of the episode, Snow's decapitated head is found in the same manner that Faith's was. Snow White awakens Bigby and alerts him to the murder of Faith, and generally joins him in the investigation. Wildlife advocates argue that continued protections are needed so they can continue to expand in California, Colorado, Oregon and other states.ĭemocratic and Republican administrations alike, going back to former president George W Bush, have sought to remove or scale back federal wolf protections first enacted in 1974.In the Game Season One - Episode One: Faith Yet wolves remain absent across most of their historical range. And more than 2,000 wolves occupy six states in the Northern Rockies and Pacific north-west. Wolves once ranged most of the US but were wiped out in most places by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns.Ī remnant population in the western Great Lakes region has since expanded to some 4,400 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. That’s sparked public outrage due to the popularity of Yellowstone’s wolf packs among tourists who visit from around the world.įollowing the killings, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland published an op-ed this week saying federal officials could give northern Rockies wolves emergency protection if the species is put at significant risk.
Under the loosened rules, hunters and trappers primarily in Montana have killed a record 23 wolves that wandered outside Yellowstone National Park this winter. However, the US Fish and Wildlife Service in September began a separate review of whether protections should be restored for the region’s wolves, after Republican state lawmakers in Montana and Idaho passed laws last year intended to drive down wolf numbers by making it easier to kill them.
The status of northern Rockies wolves was not challenged in the lawsuit decided Thursday. All three were updating their wolf management programs and officials said that work would continue. None of the Great Lakes states with established wolf populations – Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin – had scheduled additional wolf hunts prior to the judge’s ruling. The American Farm Bureau Federation, National Rifle Association and other industry groups had urged Judge White not to restore federal protection, keeping the wolves under the control of state officials who allow wolf hunting. That has stirred anger among hunters who target the big game animals. And wolves in some places have reduced the size of elk and deer herds, their natural prey. Wolf attacks on livestock are uncommon but can cause significant economic damage to farmers when their cows or sheep are killed.
“Wolves in the Great Lakes region have a stay of execution,” said John Horning with the environmental group WildEarth Guardians. Wildlife advocacy groups said the judge’s order would most immediately put a stop to hunting in the Great Lakes region, where Wisconsin officials had come under criticism after a wolf hunt last year blew past the state’s quotas, killing 218 wolves in four days. Interior department spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said the agency was reviewing Thursday’s decision and offered no further comment. They contend protections are no longer warranted. That recovery has brought bitter blowback from hunters and farmers angered over wolf attacks on big game herds and livestock. At stake is the future of a species whose recovery from near-extinction has been heralded as an historic conservation success.
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