Experimental populations, §10(j)
New Mexico Department of Game & Fish v. United States Department of Interior
A district court preliminarily enjoined FWS from releasing endangered Mexican wolves in New Mexico without first obtaining the necessary permits from the state's game and wildlife agency. New Mexico law requires all persons who import...
Wyoming Farm Bureau Fed'n v. Babbitt
The court holds that the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI's) final rules governing the reintroduction of a nonessential experimental population of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho did not violate the...
United States v. McKittrick
The court upholds a hunter's conviction for taking and possessing a gray wolf in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and transporting the gray wolf in violation of the Lacey Act. The hunter shot and killed a gray wolf that...