Except from the: Gray Wolf Recovery Weekly Progress Report
Week of March 1 - March 7, 2003
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

"The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on the last of the litigation against the wolf recovery program on 02/25/03. The case involved the Diamond G Ranch, Inc, a Wyoming Corporation. Gale Norton, Sec. Interior and USFWS. The case was an appeal of a U.S. District Court for Wyoming ruling that the wolf recovery program did not violate the Fifth Amendments takings provision or the regulations promulgated under the Endangered Species Act. The Appeals Court affirmed the District Court ruling which dismissed the Diamond G's takings claims and the ESA claims. This is another big legal win for the DOJ, FWS, and wolf recovery program."