Help Save Scruff the Wolf Pup and His Family

Take Action Now: Call Your U.S. Senator

The Pet and Livestock Protection Act (H.R. 845) passed the U.S. House of Representatives in December 2025 and is now in the U.S. Senate as of December 18, 2025. It is now under consideration, primarily in the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. The bill aims to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species List and return management to states, but faces significant opposition and a tougher path in the Senate. But there is no going back on the Endangered Species list EVER if this bill gets passed!

The following is a quote from the representivie that pushed the bill through the house.

“The Pet and Livestock Protection Act bill requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the 2020 Department of the Interior final rule that delisted gray wolves in the lower 48 United States. It also ensures this rule cannot be overturned through judicial review, preventing activist judges, like the California judge who vacated the rule in 2022, from relisting the gray wolf by judicial fiat.” Senator Tom Tiffany

Fringe hunters & extremist politicians are pushing for a return to wolf hunting! Just think what will happen to gray wolf families if they get their way.

Where there is a one-sided government, anything goes. But is there a compromise to this merry-go-round of on-again, off-again Gray wolf listings? Yes!

Downgrade to Threatened Status

A threatened species is any plant, animal, or fungus vulnerable to extinction in the near future, facing high risk due to factors like habitat loss, poaching, climate change, or disease, with categories like Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered used to define their risk level, notably by the IUCN Red List, with protections often enforced by national laws like the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA)

We all know how wolves have been treated when they get delisted! The most recent delisting by the Trump Administration in 2020 resulted in disasters for Wisconsin’s Gray wolves. Especially for our wolves here in Wisconsin. Patrick Durkin puts it best in the following clip from People & Wolves.

The law, Wisconsin Act 169, is in our state statutes and requires a wolf hunt when they are not listed on the Endangered Species List. A compromise to taking them off the Endangered List would be to list them as Threatened.

For species listed as threatened, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) can implement “special rules” under section 4(d) of the ESA. These rules often provide greater management flexibility to states, tribes, and landowners to address specific conflicts, such as wolf depredation on livestock, which can help increase human tolerance for wolves.

Currently, gray wolves in the contiguous 48 states are listed as endangered, except Minnesota, where they are listed as threatened, and in the Northern Rocky Mountains, where they are delisted and managed by the states and tribes.

In short, a “threatened” status means the species requires active conservation management to prevent it from reaching the more critical “endangered” status, while allowing for some management flexibility to coexist with human activities. Source USF&WS: Threatened Status

Tiffany’s bill has to go through the US Senate next, and you can call your Senator and ask they vote for a downgrade to threatened!

Take Action: The following link will get you to contact information on your U.S. senators. Thank you!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm