![]() “We had hoped that the Biden Administration was going to simply reserve that decision on its own but, when the Administration just dug in on defending Trump’s scientifically unsupported rule that was clearly pandering to his base (the rule dropped a few days before the election), we knew the legal challenge was where we needed to focus.” Larris is the Wildlife Program Director for Guardians. “The November 2020 delisting decision was a huge gut punch for WildEarth Guardians (Guardians/WEG) and all the wolf advocates that have been working for decades in support of wolf recovery across the West,” Lindsay Larris told EnviroNews today. At the time, conservation groups called foul, saying the Interior’s move was nothing more than a “ploy for Midwest votes.” ![]() Days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump’s Interior Department (DOI/Interior) under Secretary David Bernhardt made an announcement that sent shockwaves through the environmental movement: gray wolves ( Canis lupus) were to be stripped of their protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the lower-48 states. ( EnviroNews DC News Bureau)- Washington D.C. ![]()
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