Executive Order 14425 gives the Secretary of the Interior 90 days to decide whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves have met the recovery criteria for delisting under the Endangered Species Act, and to start the delisting process if he says they have. It also directs the administration to press states to drop their own protections and loosen the rules for killing wolves. That is a recovery decision handed to a political deadline instead of to the biologists who set the criteria. Mexican wolves were gone from the wild entirely before reintroduction began in the 1990s, and they are back only because federal protection held for decades through exactly this kind of pressure. Ranchers who lose livestock to predation already have compensation programs to draw on. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to keep gray and Mexican wolves listed until the recovery criteria are actually met, and to keep that judgment with the science rather than an executive order's clock.
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Executive Order 14425 gives the Secretary of the Interior 90 days to decide whether gray wolves and Mexican wolves have met the recovery criteria for delisting under the Endangered Species Act, and to start the delisting process if he says they have. It also directs the administration to press states to drop their own protections and loosen the rules for killing wolves. That is a recovery decision handed to a political deadline instead of to the biologists who set the criteria. Mexican wolves were gone from the wild entirely before reintroduction began in the 1990s, and they are back only because federal protection held for decades through exactly this kind of pressure. Ranchers who lose livestock to predation already have compensation programs to draw on. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to keep gray and Mexican wolves listed until the recovery criteria are actually met, and to keep that judgment with the science rather than an executive order's clock.
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