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Once nearly extinct, gray wolves<\/a> have rebounded in recent years under the Endangered Species Act. In Wisconsin, their numbers grew<\/a> to around 900 in 2016\u2014a 16 percent increase over the previous year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs wolf populations continue to increase, interactions between farmers, their livestock, rural residents, and wolves continue to escalate without a remedy in sight,\u201d Holte told lawmakers during a Senate hearing Wednesday on the law. He said farms saw more than $200,000 in damage from attacks and stress on livestock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0Foes of the Endangered Species Act now see an opportunity to weaken it under President Donald Trump, who has said<\/a> the nation\u2019s environmental rules are \u201cout of control.\u201d<\/div>\n
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His temporary freeze on pending regulations prevented first-ever protections for a species of bumblebee<\/a> from taking effect this month.<\/p>\n

(Read more about how Trump\u2019s presidency could affect wildlife<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 1973 law allows the federal government to protect certain species by designating them as threatened or endangered, preserving habitat and outlawing hunts. It currently protects more than 1,600 plant and animal species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the law\u2019s implementation, acknowledges<\/a> that the number of species so far deemed robust enough to be taken off the protected list (close to 40) is \u201crelatively modest.\u201d But it has been nearly 100 percent successful at preventing those species from going extinct altogether, and it has allowed others, such as the gray wolf, bald eagle, and American crocodile, to thrive.<\/p>\n

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\"NationalWednesday\u2019s Senate hearing was focused on \u201cmodernizing\u201d the current act by making it more challenging to list a new species, for example, or expediting the removal of species that are already listed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some observers are wary of this language. \u201cThe professed desire to \u2018modernize\u2019 the ESA has almost always been code to push forward an agenda to weaken or gut it,\u201d Defenders of Wildlife chief Jamie Rappaport Clark told<\/a> the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works during the hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council has already sued<\/a> the Trump administration over its suspension of protections for the rusty patched bumblebee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t think this is just a freeze,\u201d says Rebecca Riley<\/a>, senior attorney for NRDC. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for the administration to reconsider, and perhaps revoke, the rule entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hundreds<\/a> of bills, introduced mostly by Republicans, have sought to delist species or otherwise weaken the ESA, and most of them have been unsuccessful. \u201cIt\u2019s a very popular law,\u201d Riley says, with a \u201clong track record\u201d of balancing industry and conservation concerns.<\/p>\n

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