Yesterday's ruling will also help other wildlife because it strikes  down a Bush-era policy adopted by the Obama administration allowing the government to protect only small populations of endangered species instead of the entire species. Reliance on this anti-environmental Bush policy has been one of the many low points of Interior Secretary Salazar's management of endangered species.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to be reminded that wolf recovery in the northern Rockies needs to be completed, not abandoned!
This is a major win for the protection of these impressive and rare wolves. 
Conservation groups are still working to protect existing wolf populations in the Southwest and Great Lakes and to reintroduce them to former habitats in the Northeast, Utah, California and the Northwest.