Sponsor
Lauren Boebert
Representative · R-CO
Representative · R-CO
The bill shifts gray-wolf management quickly from federal to state control—giving local authorities and landowners more flexibility and faster decisions—but it removes judicial and some administrative safeguards, raising risks to wolf conservation, increasing potential costs from depredations, and limiting public review and legal remedies.
State wildlife agencies, rural communities, landowners, and hunters regain authority to manage gray wolves under the 2020 delisting rule and will see management decisions implemented quickly (restores local control).
Landowners and hunters face fewer federal regulatory constraints where states assume wolf-management, lowering regulatory burden and increasing management flexibility at the local level.
All Americans lose the ability to challenge the reissued final rule in court and affected individuals/businesses cannot seek judicial relief for harms caused by the rule, removing a key legal check and remedy.
People and organizations that depend on federal endangered-species protections (wildlife watchers, conservation groups, and broader public interests) face higher risk of gray wolf population declines and loss of protections.
Ranchers and local taxpayers could face higher costs if state management leads to more wolf–livestock conflicts and depredations (increased losses, control costs, or public expense for mitigation).
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires reissuance of the November 3, 2020 rule delisting the gray wolf within 60 days and bars judicial review of that reissuance.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Lauren Boebert · Last progress January 3, 2025
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the November 3, 2020 final rule that removed the gray wolf from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife within 60 days of enactment, and bars any judicial review of that reissuance. It also sets a short title for the Act.