In a landmark ruling, a federal judge today restored Endangered Species Act protection to gray wolves across most of the United States, reversing a Trump-era rule stripping their safeguards. The ruling prohibits wolf hunting and trapping in states outside the northern Rocky Mountains. While this ruling to restore federal protection for wolves across most of the country, wolves living in the northern Rocky Mountain region were excluded. We fought for wolves and won, but our fight for wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming goes on. “This is a huge win for gray wolves and the many people across the country who care so deeply about them,” said Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “I hope this ruling finally convinces the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to abandon its longstanding, misguided efforts to remove federal wolf protections. The agency should work instead to restore these ecologically important top carnivores to places like the southern Rockies and northeastern United States.”