Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends the state's gray wolf management plan, provided that the federal government removes gray wolves from the list of endangered species.

Highlights:

- Requires the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to designate areas where gray wolves are classified as trophy game animals to reasonable ensure that (Sec. 3):

- At least seven breeding pairs of wolves exist at the end of the current calandar year within the state and primarily outside of Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway (the only requirement according to existing law); or - At least fifteen breeding pairs of wolves exist within the state if the Commission enters into a memoranda of understanding with the national park service regarding wolf management within Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway (additional requirement supplemented by this Act).

- Amends the population requirements for the Commission to issue permits to landowners and livestock owners to remove wolves which are harassing, injuring, maiming, or killing livestock, or other domesticated animals, and for wolves occupying geographic areas where chronic wolf predation occurs. Existing law mandates that seven breeding pairs exist within the state outside of Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, and this Act instead requires there be fifteen breeding pairs within the state (Sec. 3). - Expands the powers and duties of the Commission to include entering into a memoranda of understanding with the states of Idaho and Montana to cooperate in the capture, transport, exchange, and release of gray wolves in locations where the gray wolf is not classified as a predator for purposes of assuring genetic interchange amongst the wolf populations within the three states (Sec. 3).

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