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Court gives environmentalists a defeat over gray wolf protection

By John Siciliano

Published March 3, 2017 11:31pm ET

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Court gives environmentalists a defeat over gray wolf protection — Wyoming put in place a management plan for the wolf population, including renewed hunting of the canids, and the delisting of the gray wolf was under way. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File) | Dawn Villella

Federal appeals court judges on Friday agreed to remove protections for the gray wolf in Wyoming, in a major upset for environmentalists who sought to keep the wolf under federal protections.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision reverses a 2014 ruling by a lower court that blocked a federal agency’s finding that the wolf was no longer a threatened species in Wyoming.

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