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Gray Wolves Are Losing Federal Protection TRAVERSE CITY, MI (Associated Press) - Gray wolves no longer need federal protection.

The federal Interior Department says it will remove about four-thousand wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the endangered and threatened species list in about a month. State and tribal governments will have to keep their numbers at healthy levels.

The department hopes to take the same action for about 12-hundred wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming in about a year.

The wolves were hunted to near-extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1950s. Changing attitudes led to protection in 1974 under the Endangered Species Act.
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