Comment period deadlines also are extended until Dec. 17 to allow these hearings to take place within the public comment periods on the proposed rules.

The hearings will take place on Nov. 19 in Denver, Colorado, Nov. 20 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Nov. 22 in Sacramento, California. Each will include a short informational presentation. The service has also added a public information meeting and hearing in Pinetop, Arizona, on Dec. 3.

The hearings are part of the USFWS’s continuing efforts to provide an open, comprehensive public process for the two proposed wolf rules and will provide the public a forum by which to register their views.

A formal notice of these hearings and the extension of the comment period will appear in the federal register on Oct. 28.

To learn more about the proposed rules, view the draft federal register notice with the details of the public hearings, and for links to submit comments to the public record, visit the USFWS's wolf recovery webpage. 

—From U.S. Fish and Wildlife news release