In a nation still reckoning with what it owes the natural world, President Trump has signed an executive order directing federal review of endangered species protections for grey and Mexican wolves — a decision that pits the livelihoods of ranchers against decades of hard-won conservation progress. The order does not immediately strip protections, but sets a 90-day clock for the Interior Department to assess whether wolf populations have recovered enough to justify delisting. It is a familiar tension in the American West: the wolf as symbol of wildness restored, and as threat to those who work