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The bill transfers immediate management control and legal finality over gray wolf status to states and localities—reducing litigation and restoring regulatory clarity—while raising the risk of increased wolf mortality, ecosystem impacts, and removing judicial oversight for affected stakeholders.
State governments and rural communities regain immediate authority and regulatory clarity over gray wolf management because the bill reinstates the 2020 delisting rule and limits judicial challenges, reducing litigation delays to management actions.
Rural communities and regional ecosystems face increased long-term risks because delisting may raise wolf mortality and set back recovery, harming biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Tribes, conservation groups, and other affected parties lose the ability to seek judicial review because the bill bars challenges to the delisting decision, limiting legal recourse against potential harms to species or ecosystems.
Rural communities and livestock owners may experience increased livestock losses and public-safety concerns if federal protections for wolves are removed.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Reissues the 2020 federal rule removing the gray wolf from the endangered/threatened list and bars judicial review of that reissuance.
Official title: Require the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to reissue a final rule removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
Introduced April 4, 2025 by Ron Johnson · Last progress April 4, 2025
Reissues the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's November 3, 2020 rule that removed the gray wolf from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife, and prohibits any judicial review of that reissuance. The agency must complete the reissuance within 60 days of the law taking effect.