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Policy

Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, RESTORE: The North Woods, and the Wildlands Project. 2003. Northeast Gray Wolf Distinct Population Segment (legal petition to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). www.defenders.org/wildlife/new/ne_dps.pdf

2005 U.S. District Court (Vermont) decision on U.S. Fish and Wildlife effort to eliminate the Northeast Distinct Population Segment. (National Wildlife Federation, et al. v. Secretary, United States Department of the Interior and Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service.) http://www.nwf.org/nwfwebadmin/binaryVault/GrayWolfOpinion.pdf 

2005 U.S. District Court (Oregon) decision on U.S. Fish and Wildlife effort to reclassify and remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. (Defenders of Wildlife, et al. v. Secretary, United States Department of the Interior, et al.) http://www.easternwolf.org/linkedfiles/OregonWolfDecision2005.pdf

Matteson, Mollie. 2004. “Wolf Potential High, Federal Commitment Low.” Forest Watch (Vermont). www.forestwatch.org/content.php?id=203

Sierra Club. “The Endangered Species Act.” www.sierraclub.org/wildlife/species/esa/

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

— 2004. “Summary of the Proposal to Delist the Gray Wolf Eastern Distinct Population Segment.” www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/delisting/prdel-rule-sum.htm

–– 2003. “Final Rule to Reclassify and Remove the Gray Wolf from the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.” www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/esa-status/Reclass-final-fr.pdf

— 1992. Recovery Plan for the Eastern Timber Wolf. http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plans/1992/920131.pdf

–– Gray Wolf Reclassification website: www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/esa-status/