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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Latest Wolf Rule Changes Have Advocates Howling

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Idahoans will soon have a new "license to kill" when it comes to endangered wolves. New federal rules expand the "allowable" killings, as well as clear the way for a hunting season and systematic reduction of wolf packs in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Louisa Wilcox with the Natural Resources Defense Council says in a few years, the numbers of wolves could be back down to barely sustainable levels, and the wolf hasn't even been taken off the endangered species list yet.

“You can wind up with 100 in Yellowstone, 100 in Idaho, and 100 in Glacier - and that is, according to many scientists, too few to get to recovery.”

Wilcox reports that two helicopters have already been purchased to kill wolves from the air. Supporters of killing more wolves say it will protect elk and deer herds. Wilcox notes that elk and deer herds in most of Idaho are at above ideal levels, and other factors like development and drought, affect deer and elk more than wolves.

Wilcox adds that proposals to deal with wolves spend big money on how to kill them, and very little on teaching people and wolves to co-exist. She says success stories abound.

“There has been enormous experience in Central Idaho about people who have changed what they do with their husbandry practices and resolved problems.”

The new rule is at www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.



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