# 2024-31754: Feds Reject Wolf Bureaucracy Shuffle in 90-Day Review

2024-31754, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on Two Petitions for Gray Wolf, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-08, effective 2025-01-08 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31754
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31754
- Title: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on Two Petitions for Gray Wolf
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-08
- Effective: 2025-01-08
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Feds Reject Wolf Bureaucracy Shuffle in 90-Day Review

## Summary

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed two petitions about gray wolves and decided they don’t have enough solid info to change the wolves’ protection status. This means gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes and West Coast areas will keep their current listings for now. No big changes or costs are expected, and the decision was made on January 8, 2025.

## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90-day finding on two concurrently filed companion petitions to revise the currently listed gray wolf (Canis lupus) entities under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act or ESA). Together, the petitions requested that the Service: designate and delist a Western Great Lakes (WGL) distinct population segment (DPS) of gray wolf due to recovery; and designate a West Coast States DPS of gray wolf and list it as a threatened species, and potentially delist the remnant areas of the gray wolf entity in the lower 48 States due to extinction. Based on our review, we find that the petitions do not present substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that the petitioned actions may be warranted.

## Effects PRIA read

No economic effects identified for this document.

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## Sources
- [2024-31754 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/08/2024-31754/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-90-day-finding-on-two-petitions-for-gray-wolf)
- [2024-31754 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-08/pdf/2024-31754.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31754 (as of 2026-06-11).