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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><h1><b><font size=5 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Congress, in a First, Removes an Animal From the Endangered Species List</span></font></b><font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#0f243e" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><h6 style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.35pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.35pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color=gray face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:gray;font-weight:bold'>By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/felicity_barringer/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Felicity Barringer">FELICITY BARRINGER</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/john_m_broder/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by John M. Broder">JOHN M. BRODER</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h6><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Congress for the first time is directly intervening in the <a href="http://www.fws.gov/endangered/" title="Information on Endangered Species Program">Endangered Species List</a> and removing an animal from it, establishing a precedent for political influence over the list that has outraged environmental groups. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>A rider to the Congressional budget measure agreed to last weekend dictates that wolves in Montana and Idaho be taken off the endangered species list and managed instead by state wildlife agencies, which is in direct opposition to a federal judge’s recent decision forbidding the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/interior_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Interior Department, U.S.">Interior Department</a> to take such an action. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>While the language on the Rocky Mountain wolves was a tiny item in budgetary terms, environmental groups said it set an unnerving precedent by letting Congress, rather than a science-based federal agency, remove endangered species protections. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The rider is the first known instance of Congress’ directly intervening in the list. While Congress overrode the protections extended to a tiny Tennessee fish called the snail darter about two decades ago, it did so by authorizing the construction of a dam that had originally been tabled to protect the fish. In that case, Congress did not overturn scientists’ findings about the fish’s viability. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>There are myriad restrictions and budget cuts for environmental initiatives in the proposed budget. Most appeared modest compared to the more drastic cutbacks in the original House budget. Federal agencies were still working through the extensive and complex list provided by Congress on Tuesday, trying to determine what their impact might be. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Among the cuts were $49 million from programs relating to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">climate change</a>, $438 million from programs supporting energy efficiency and renewable energy, $638 million from environmental cleanup efforts by the Defense Department and $997 million from revolving funds through which the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/environmental_protection_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Environmental Protection Agency.">Environmental Protection Agency</a> provides money for local water treatment and pollution cleanup programs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The budget rider on the wolves, backed by two Western legislators — Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, and Representative Mike Simpson, Republican of Idaho — requires the Interior Department to adopt its earlier plan, removing wolves from the endangered list in those two states because it deemed that the states’ management plans, which include hunts of the animals, were acceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The rider also precluded judicial review of this provision. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The wolf issue has great political resonance among the ranchers and hunters of Montana. The first group is concerned about livestock; the second about declines in elk and moose herds. Senator Tester is up for re-election in 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The fact that the department is being required to do what it had originally intended to do did not take the edge off arguments from environmental advocates that Congress had crossed a crucial line. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Michael T. Leahy, the Rocky Mountain region director for the group <a href="http://www.defenders.org/index_v2.html" title="Defenders of Wildlife">Defenders of Wildlife</a>, said in an interview Tuesday, “Now, anytime anybody has an issue with an endangered species, they are going to run to Congress and try to get the same treatment the anti-wolf people have gotten.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>A spokeswoman for Interior Department said it would have no comment on the budget rider. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.3pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>State officials want the population culled because of the threat wolves pose to elk, moose and deer. Ron <span class=SpellE>Aasheim</span>, a spokesman for the <a href="http://fwp.mt.gov/" title="The department">Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks</a>, said Tuesday, “We need to be able to manage them as a state to balance them with other wildlife and landowner impacts pertinent to livestock.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Article continues at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/us/politics/13wolves.html?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema3">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/us/politics/13wolves.html?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema3</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#0f243e" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>