It was a pleasant note to read in my e-mail inbox this morning. A forwarded e-mail from the environmental defenders over at Earthjustice delivered the good news: gray wolves were temporarily back on the Endangered Species List.

The short version of the story is that US Fish and Wildlife messed up in looking at the science, erred in allowing the disastrous Wyoming management plan to be approved, and shouldn't have removed the wolf from the ESA list.

Judge Donald Molloy also said that we were likely to win on the merits as the full case was heard (this was just a preliminary injunction). And since hundreds of wolves could be killed while the main case was being heard, Judge Molloy reinstituted protections for wolves in the meantime.

Hooray for wolves!