SAN FRANCISCO, California: A coalition of groups has gone to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to seek an emergency injunction to stop a planned wolf hunt in Idaho. [1] The wolf population was previously protected by the Endangered Species Act. However, a rider added to an appropriations bill earlier this year lifted those protections by delisting wolves as an endangered species. Idaho plans to allow wolf hunting in most parts of the state from Aug. 30 to March 31, and trapping from Nov. 15 through March 31. The state currently has about 1,000 wolves and has promised that it won't let the population go below 150. Opponents of the wolf hunt are asking the court of find the budget rider unconstitutional. District Judge Donald Molloy previously found that the delisting of wolves from the endangered species list was constitutionally sound. [2]
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