Part 2: The management of the wolves from the information given it the congressional hearing. Congress decided that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) will reintroduce the gray wolf (Canis lupus), that is currently considered an endangered species, into Yellowstone National Park, which is located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

Congress also decided to follow Alternative One namely that the wolves would be classified as experimental wolves according to section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act).

Congress chose to do this since they adjudged the gray wolf populations to be expunged from most of the Western United States and that only a small population of the gray wolves remain in the extreme northwestern Montana, and in part of Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington where migrating wolves from Montana and Canada accidentally settled.

The objective of the reintroduction idea is to reestablish a viable wolf population in the Yellowstone area, which is one of three wolf recovery areas identified in the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan.

Env. Impact statement. The reintroduction of greywolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho
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1 Final. Env. Impact statement. The reintroduction of greywolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho, pgs 2-4

2 Ibid. 2-18

3 Ibid. 2-29

4 Ibid. 2-36

5 Department of the Interior, part VII. 50 CFR Part 17; RIN 1018-AC86 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1994-11-22/html/94-28746.htm)