Laura Lundquist

(Missoula Current) On Tuesday, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity sent a 60-day notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declaring its intent to sue if the agency doesn’t develop a national recovery plan for the gray wolf as required by the Endangered Species Act. The law requires groups to provide a 60-day notification to give the agency a chance to respond and possibly avert the lawsuit.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has never developed a national wolf recovery plan, even though the grey wolf has been listed as endangered across most of the lower-48 states since 1978. The Endangered Species Act requires the agency to write recovery plans to help listed species survive and to set the criteria that must be met before a species can be delisted. The only time

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