POWELL — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported last week it will not prepare plans for recovering the gray wolf because the species no longer requires Endangered Species Act protections.

The agency found recovery plans will not promote conservation of the gray wolf because “listing them is no longer appropriate under the Endangered Species Act, and measures provided pursuant to the Act are no longer necessary,” the agency said in the decision last week.

“In the context of recovery planning, this means that the Service includes in recovery plans all methods necessary to bring a listed species to the point at which protection under the Act is no longer necessary. Thus, per the statutory and regulatory language above, we can only decline to develop a recovery plan when it would not be

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