Environmental

Rare Alaskan Wolf Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection

Alexander Archipelago Wolf Threatened by Logging in Tongass National Forest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2014.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago wolves may need protection under the Endangered Species Act because of unsustainable logging in the Tongass National Forest and elsewhere in southeast Alaska. The agency will now conduct an in-depth status review of this rare subspecies of gray wolf, which lives only in the region’s old-growth forests.

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