Reinstate the Endangered Species Protections for Gray Wolves nationwide prohibiting hunting and trapping of same.

The Gray wolves were delisted from federal protections due to rider to the Budget Amendment with little or no input from the scientific community. NINA research has concluded "In general, it is obvious that wolves are among the least dangerous species for their size and predatory potential." High wolf predation of livestock is not accurate. A paper entitled "Cattle Death Loss" issued by the USDA on May 12, 2011 showed that only .2% of all cattle losses were from wolves. And states cover those losses. Effective non-lethal controls exist. And research by Mark Hebblewhite has discovered that the presence of wolves creates a phenomenal amount of positive improvements that cascades throughout all ecosystems reported in his paper "Human Activity Mediates a Trophic Cascade Caused by Wolves".