[Representative] LaLota a Critical ‘No’ on Wolf Protections
From EastHamptonStar.com:
Republican Representative Nick LaLota of the First Congressional District cast a critical vote on Dec. 18 to remove Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf outside of Alaska. The gray wolf was first listed as endangered under the act in 1974.
The vote comes after the Trump administration proposed a series of changes to the act in mid-November. The public comment window on those changes, which could harm some of the East End’s most celebrated species, like the piping plover, monarch butterfly, Eastern tiger salamander, and North Atlantic right whale, ended on Dec. 22.
