Thank you for holding a hearing on H.R. 424. If you have any questions on the impacts of wolves to agriculture in Minnesota, I would be happy to answer them.

The gray wolf has recovered in Minnesota by all reasonable measures.

The purpose of the ESA is to recover species that are threatened with extinction: the Act clearly lays out the appropriate path to take after a species has recovered.

Once the gray wolf is delisted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources' plan will be reinstated.

It is imperative Congress act without delay to pass this important legislation.

90 percent of American voters support keeping the law intact.

without resources, asking public school systems to meet any benchmark...you are jeopardizing a lot of children.

public money that is being diverted to those programs, as a consequence it is less another layer of nonsupport from the public schools in Arizona.

the threat of public funds going to private school vouchers, for-profit charter schools; they are very real now given President Trump and Secretary Devos' singular focus on that concept.

Arizona, along with Mississippi, are at the five lowest States in terms of per people expenditures to the public schools; Arizona is about $3,300 under the national average.

The Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association thanks the House Committee on Natural Resources for showing support and granting a hearing for H.R. 424--Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017.