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Show \ The Salt Lake Tribune THE WEST ALi Friday, January 14, 2000 Reintroduced Wolves to Stay in Northern Rockies, Appeals Court Rules SOCIATED PRESS DENVER An appeals court ruled Thursday that hundreds of transplanted Canadian wolves can remain in the northern Rockies, a decision environ. mentalists hailed as a boon for species re coveryefforts nationwide The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2-year-old decision by a Wyomingfederal judge whoruled that a gov ernment wolf reintroduction program in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho wasillegal The appeals court rejected arguments bystate and federal farm bureau officials that the program'srules violated the En: dangered Species Act. Opponents of the program said its rules deprived naturally occurring gray-wolves in theareas of their endangered-species protections by treating them the same as reintroduced wolves. Environmental groups that joined Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and other government agencies in the appeal of the American Farm Bureau Federation and state chapters in Wyoming. Montana and Idaho,called the decision “a ringing en dorsement to our wolf reintroduction mm” lodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife, said the ruling marks “a new day for wolves in more ways than disappointed with the ruling I just t think they paid close enough attention to what was presented to them,” he said. “Maybe they weren't well-versed in the Endangered Species Act.” Jake Cumins, executive director of the Montana Farm Bureau, said: “I believe the consequencesof sucha ruling are sig Wyoming ruling said the new decision one. “The practical effect is that the wolves are hereto stay,” said Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federa- “The Yellowstone wolves have been given a newlease on life, and so has the principle that science not politics — should guide wildlife restoration efforts nificant for all of us. That means that Congresscan no longerlimit theintent of the law by the language of their repeated wolfattacks on livestock, was farm bureaus. They. had argued the sets an important precedent tion, adding that the decision has “enormous significance nationwide.” Babbitt, whose agency ordered the wolf program and was sued over it by the in America,” he said Jon Robinett, whose ranch in Dubois, Wyo., near Yellowstone has been hit by legislation.” Theappeals court reversed the Decem- ber 1997 ruling by U.S. District Judge William Downes, who had sided with the ogram endangers the naturally occu ring wolves because its rules ~~ ” ranchers to shoot individual wolves th attack their livestock. Downes had ordered the reintroduce! wolves removed, but had stayed his owt ruling pending the decision by the federa appeals court. In Thursday's ruling, the court said thr: 1973 Endangered Species Act and a sectior added by Congress in 1982 were intende: to allow the Interior Department flexitil ityin its approachto the goals of preserv ing and recovering threatened animals. It said the argumentthatthe rules o the reintroduction illegally deny full pro tections to naturally occurring wol\e: unnecessarily limits that flexibility ‘ignores biological reality and miscon strues the larger purpose of the Endan gered Species Act.” Indians Remain Largely Ignored By Candidates THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - George W. Bush announces at a campaign stop in Iowa that he’s pumping thousands of dollars into an ad campaign to court Latinos, describing it as “‘a fresh start for America.” From the church pulpit where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yao se delivered his “Mountaintop” speech shortly before his assa: nation, Vice President Al Gore in- vokes the nameoftheslain civil rights leader to rally blacks in Memphis, Tenn. As the presidential campaign heats up, the leading contenders are reaching out to minority groups: women, blacks, Nada. Latinos and Asian-Americans. But there is one group that hasn’t been wooed,stroked or courted. 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