1.1 	A resolution
1.2 	memorializing Congress to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act.
1.3 	WHEREAS, the purpose of the federal Endangered Species Act is to improve the status of 
1.4 	a listed species to the point that it no longer needs Endangered Species Act protection; and 
1.5 	WHEREAS, a successful recovery plan implemented after the gray wolf was first listed 
1.6 	under the Endangered Species Act in 1974 has resulted in a healthy, self-sustaining population of 
1.7 	gray wolves in the upper Great Lakes area; and 
1.8 	WHEREAS, the gray wolf recovery plan goal was for a population of 1,250 to 1,400 
1.9 	animals in Minnesota, at which point long-term population viability would be assured; and 
1.10 	WHEREAS, the Minnesota population of gray wolves has steadily expanded to at least 
1.11 	3,000 animals and is not therefore biologically in danger of extinction; and 
1.12 	WHEREAS, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has attempted three times to 
1.13 	remove federal protection of gray wolves in the Great Lakes region, only to have lawsuits 
1.14 	reverse such delisting; and 
1.15 	WHEREAS, wolf predation on livestock and big game species is resulting in economic 
1.16 	losses in the state of Minnesota; NOW, THEREFORE, 
1.17 	BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that Congress should 
1.18 	speedily enact legislation to remove gray wolves in Minnesota from the federal list of threatened 
1.19 	and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
2.1 	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is 
2.2 	directed to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United 
2.3 	States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of 
2.4 	the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment 
2.5 	and Public Works, the chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Minnesota's 
2.6 	Senators and Representatives in Congress.