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Wolf provision left out of massive congressional budget bill

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (AP)--   A proposal that would have taken wolves in the western Great Lakes region and Wyoming off the endangered list did not make it into a massive year-end congressional tax and spending package.  

Some lawmakers from the region had hoped to attach a rider to return management of wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Wyoming to the states, which could have opened the door to resumed wolf hunting.

But spokeswomen for congressional sponsors, and officials with the Humane Society of the United States and the Center for Biological Diversity, say the proposal was left out of the final bill.

Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, says the provision would have subverted federal court decisions that restored the four states' wolves to the endangered list.

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