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This week, the Trust the Science Act, a bill that Representative Jack Bergman cosponsored, passed the House of Representatives. The legislation will permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states, return control of wolf conservation to the individual states, and ensure this decision is not subject to judicial review.

Rep. Jack Bergman stated, “The gray wolf population has successfully recovered, and it’s time to trust the years of scientific evidence which show that wolf management can be best left to folks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. States are better equipped to manage our gray wolf populations than the federal government, and I’m proud to have cosponsored this important legislation.”

The science shows that gray wolf populations are thriving in each geographic region where they are located. On November 3, 2020, the Trump Administration published a final rule removing the gray wolf as a protected species under the ESA in the lower 48 United States. In February 2022, the rule was vacated by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Trust the Science Act would reinstate the 2020 final rule and exempt the rule from judicial review.

Read the full text of the bill here.