5 Gone to the wolves.

• Position: Stateline - Brief article

For the first time since the 1970s, sportsmen are hunting wolves in Minnesota. The Legislature approved the hunt last year after the Great Lakes gray wolf was removed from the endangered species list in 2011. Two groups--the Center for Biological Diversity and Howling for Wolves--challenged the law, but the Minnesota Court of Appeals refused to grant a petition to stop the hunt while the case proceeds. "Petitioners failed to identify any claimed irreparable harm...