Oregon Second District Congressman Cliff Bentz joined with 19 other Republican representatives in sending a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams urging her to delist the Gray Wolf as a protected species under the Endangered Species Act.  The letter follows a decision last month to not re-list wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains because the Fish and Wildlife Service found the wolf was not in danger of extinction anywhere across the Western United States. Bentz and his colleagues say despite that finding, nothing has been done to allow those bearing the burden of a predator’s reintroduction to protect themselves, livestock, or deer and elk populations from devastation by the predator.  They believe the gray wolf should immediately be delisted as a protected species, which would allow the use of accepted methods of predator control to be used by ranchers and state agencies.  Washington Fourth District Congressman Dan Newhouse also signed on to the letter.