e Society of the United States challenges the government's decision to carve out a population of gray wolves in the Great Lakes region to remove Endangered Species Act protections.
The issue in the Great Lakes case, which is still pending, is separate and of "more consequence," Bob Dreher, senior vice president of conservation programs at Defenders of Wildlife, said last month in Washington.
"It really raises the question of how the service can go about delisting portions of a large, wide-ranging species," he said.
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