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Farm groups support Trump order to return wolf management to states
Some farm groups say President Trump’s Executive Order supporting American ranchers is a positive step forward for gray wolf management.
Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s Tyler Wenzlaff tells Brownfield the past four administrations have taken steps to delist or remove protections for wolves in some capacity.
“We really believe that this is not a partisan issue and something that a lot of people can understand that wolves have recovered, especially in the Great Lakes region,” he says. “Science has pointed this out and that they just need state management.”
Wenzlaff says court action has repeatedly kept wolves under federal protection, but legislation passed by the U.S. House could end that cycle.
“We want them to continue to be in the landscape,” he says. “We just want to make sure that they are managed at an appropriate level that allows our farmers up in the Northwoods to continue to do what they do without seeing these continuous attacks.”
Wenzlaff says without congressional action, the executive order could be challenged in federal courts like it has been for the past two decades.
The bipartisan Pet and Livestock Protection Act would return wolf management back to states. It is supported by 15 other state Farm Bureaus, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the Public Lands Council, and other ag groups.
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