Conservationists ask court to step in as red wolf plan looms

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Conservationists told a judge that an imminent federal plan to shrink the territory of the only wild red wolves would hasten the animal’s extinction.
Lawyers for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, countered that new rules for the red wolf program, set to be finalized next month, mean that the conservationists’ current arguments are moot. The federal lawyers say a new lawsuit would need to be filed to halt new plans set to be finalized by the end o