Delisting the Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf from the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An assessment of political discourse over 20 years

Feared, revered, and politicized, wolves have long captured human imagination and ignited fierce conservation conflicts. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act protects species at risk of extinction from human impacts. This far-reaching legislation, which impacts development and state-level wildlife management, has been fraught with legal battles and controversy. The gray wolf, first listed in 1974, exemplifies the tumultuous back-and-forth of listed species. In 2011, Congress, rather than wildlife management agencies in the executive branch of government, delisted the gray wolf in two Northern Rocky Mountain states using legislative action, specifically a rider on a budget bill. Since then, gray wolf territory has expanded, and controversy over gray wolf management prevails. Our study used quantitative structural topic modeling to assess political discourse surrounding the Rocky Mountain gray wolf delisting in newspapers and other documents between 2005 and 2025, allowing us ..., , # Data from: Delisting the Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf from the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An assessment of political discourse over 20 years Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9kc](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9kc) ## Description of the data and file structure This dataset includes citations and primary output columns for news articles and documents published between January 1, 2005, and March 2025 on the topic of gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains region of the United States. In this search, we used “Wolf Delisting” with boolean operators to specify the state or region (i.e., “Rocky Mountain”, “Idaho”, “Montana”, and “Wyoming). Articles and relevant quotes were acquired from the U.S. Newsstream Proquest Database; titles and publishing news sources can be used to acquire the articles via the user's home institution. ### Files and variables #### File: wolf_article_data_cites_links.csv **Description:** Datafile including articles and quotes regarding gray wol...,狼既令人畏惧、备受尊崇，又被赋予政治意涵，长久以来牵动着人类的想象力，也引发了激烈的野生动物保护争议。在美国，《濒危物种法》（Endangered Species Act）旨在保护受人类活动威胁的濒危物种。这项影响深远的立法会对开发项目及各州级野生动物管理工作产生影响，却始终充斥着法律诉讼与争议。灰狼于1974年首次被列入濒危物种名录，堪称受保护物种名录管理跌宕起伏的典型案例。2011年，美国国会而非政府行政分支的野生动物管理机构，通过立法手段将北落基山脉两个州的灰狼从濒危物种名录中移除，具体方式是在预算法案中加入一项立法附款。自此之后，灰狼的栖息地范围不断扩张，但围绕灰狼管理的争议仍持续发酵。本研究采用量化结构主题建模方法，对2005年至2025年间报纸及其他文献中围绕北落基山脉灰狼除名的政治话语展开评估，借此…… # 数据来源：《将北落基山脉灰狼从美国〈濒危物种法〉名录中移除：20年政治话语评估》 数据集DOI：[10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9kc](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s4mw6m9kc) ## 数据与文件结构说明 本数据集包含2005年1月1日至2025年3月31日期间，以美国北落基山脉地区灰狼为主题的新闻文章及相关文献的引用信息与核心输出字段。本次检索采用"灰狼除名（Wolf Delisting）"结合布尔逻辑运算符，并限定州/区域范围，即"落基山脉""爱达荷州""蒙大拿州"与"怀俄明州"。本次检索获取的文章及相关引述均来自美国ProQuest Newsstream数据库，用户可通过文章标题与发布来源，依托所在高校机构获取原文。 ### 文件与变量 #### 文件：wolf_article_data_cites_links.csv **描述：** 本数据集文件收录了与灰狼相关的文章及引述内容……