ELR Citation: ELR 20391
No(s). s. 84-5042, -5134 (8th Cir. Feb 19, 1985)

The court holds that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits the Secretary of Interior from issuing regulations permitting the sport trapping of eastern timber wolves, a threatened species, unless the Secretary determines that population pressures within the wolves' ecosystem cannot otherwise be ...