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Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana.

There have been a half-dozen encounters between grizzly bears and humans reported in Montana this month alone.

The U.S. government said on Friday it had struck a deal with wildlife advocates to remove some 1,200 wolves in Idaho and Montana from the endangered species list.

Wildlife advocates say they will file a settlement agreement with the U.S. government Friday in federal court that would take wolves off the endangered species list in Montana and Idaho.

That order from U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy reversed the government's 2009 decision to lift protections for wolves in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Utah and Washington.

After nearly 200 years, trumpeter swans have returned to Montana's Blackfoot Valley region.

Montana's 2009 general big game hunting season will close at one-half hour after sunset on Sunday.

A grizzly bear is shown in this September 24, 2008 file photo. A federal judge in Montana restored... A grizzly bear is shown in this September 24, 2008 file photo.

Wolf advocates have decided not to appeal a federal judge's decision that let wolf hunting seasons go forward in Idaho and Montana.

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