Environmentalists sue for wolf protection in Southeast

Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week of their intent to file suit against the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the Alexander Archipelago wolf, a rare subspecies of gray wolf found only in the old-growth forests of Southeast Alaska.

In August 2011 the groups filed a petition to protect the wolves, which are at risk of extinction because of what they say is the U.S. Forest Service’s unsustainable logging and road-building practices in the Tongass National Forest.

The USFS, which was required by the Endan...