Republicans raise alarm as Biden admin prepares plan to protect wolves nationwide [Video]

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are raising the alarm about a Biden administration initiative they said could lead to expanded protections for the gray wolf species, despite opposition from farmers and western states.

Committee Republicans led by Chair Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., informed Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams that they were probing her agency’s National Dialogue Around Working Landscapes and Gray Wolves and Thriving Communities and Cultures, an initiative unveiled in December. The lawmakers said oversight was necessary given the significant effect of listing the gray wolf.

“The facts are clear regarding the listing status of the Gray Wolf in the lower-48 states — the species is recovered, should be delisted, and management should be returned to the states,” Westerman and eight fellow Natural Resources Republicans wrote in a letter to Williams on Thursday. “Delisting the gray wolf in the lower-48 states has traditionally garnered bipartisan support.”

“Yet under the vague parameters of the …