After reviewing the decision by Judge William Downes of the U.S. District Court in Casper, Wyoming, Defenders of Wildlife said it not only will join the Interior Department in an appeal, but also take more immediate action within the next week to ask the judge to review and reverse his decision.
Parties have ten days after a ruling to file a motion for reconsideration.
These wolves have become symbols across America and the world of a more enlightened way of dealing with the natural world. We will fight all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary and we will win. Before the release of wolves imported from Canada in early 1995, litigation was filed against the Interior Department in an attempt to block the reintroduction. Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation and others intervened on behalf of the department against the Farm Bureau. The judge's ruling combined what were originally three different suits, which has caused some confusion.