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Gray Wolf Endangered Status
A bill to delist the gray wolf from the nation’s endangered and threatened list passed the House last Thursday, 211 to 204, largely along party lines, as Republican representatives from Minnesota and Colorado push to allow states to manage local populations. Gray wolves are federally classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, making it illegal to trap or hunt the species, unless it’s done in defense of human life. Once pushed to the brink of extinction in the continental U.S. by widespread extermination campaigns and bounty programs, wolf populations gradually began to recover following their protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1974. Republicans argue gray wolves are fully recovered, and are now putting farmers, ranchers, and pets in harm’s way. Several Democratic members argue the bill is premature and while the gray wolf has made progress in certain regions, it has not reached full recovery.
This map depicts the estimated gray wolf ranges and populations in the U.S. in 2024. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What is the name of the geological anomaly in the U.S. Midwest which avoided being covered by ice during the Last Glacial Period?
A: Driftless Area
The Driftless Area is a region in southeastern Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northwestern Illinois, and northeastern Iowa that was not covered in ice during the Last Glacial Period. The failure of the most recent glaciers to blanket this area is responsible for the region’s geologic characteristics: steep hillsides, narrow valleys, and a land marked by unevenness. The rugged terrain is due both to the lack of glacial deposits of stone or debris, or drift, and to the incision of the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries into bedrock. As the glaciers melted for the final time along the edges of the Mississippi around 13,000 years ago, massive quantities of water from melting ice sheets eroded the sedimentary rocks below, leaving an “inverse topography,” with flat plateaus above bluff tops, dissected by numerous streams and rivers, all flowing towards the Mississippi.
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