Wyoming will continue to pay for wolf damage

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jul 23, 2008 at 9:06 AM MST

Story Updated: Jul 23, 2008 at 9:06 AM MST

LANDER, WYOMING - The state of Wyoming will continue to compensate ranchers for livestock losses to wolves even though a federal judge has stripped the state of control over the predators.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula last Friday entered an injunction blocking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from removing federal Endangered Species Act protections from wolves in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

Eric Keszler is spokesman for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. He says that state law calls for spending $540,000 over the next two years to compensate ranchers in the northwestern area of the state for livestock lost to wolves. He says the state will continue with the compensation program unless the law is changed.

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