Completed Peer Review - Proposed Nonessential Experimental Population (NEP) designation for the gray wolf in the State of Colorado under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act

Completed Peer Review - Proposed Nonessential Experimental Population (NEP) designation for the gray wolf in the State of Colorado under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act
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Completed peer review on the proposed section 10(j) rule for the gray wolf in Colorado published on February 17, 2023 (88 FR 10258).  

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Peer Review
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Mountain-Prairie Region Headquarters
The Mountain-Prairie Region consists of 8 states in the heart of the American west including Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The region is defined by three distinct landscapes. In the east lie the central and northern Great Plains, primarily the...
Administrative Office
Denver,CO
Program
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Program
Falls Church,VA
Species
A gray wolf lays in the the snow-covered grass

ESA status: endangered (February 2022) except Northern Rocky Mtn of ID, MT, WY; eastern 1/3 of OR, WA; north-central UT; threatened (Dec 2014) in MN. 

The gray wolf, being a keystone predator, is an integral component of the...

FWS Focus
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Animalia
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Species
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Endangered and/or Threatened species
Carnivores
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Mountain-Prairie