Total jumps to 58-
After years of slow decline from a not very high level, finally in 2011 there was some good news for the beleaguered Mexican wolf restoration in Arizona/New Mexico. There appears to have been a 16% increase from 50 to 58 wolves in the wild. There are 12 packs and 6 breeding [...]
Continue Reading →Mexico has released five Mexican gray wolves into a mountain range just south of the Arizona and New Mexico border. If the wolves happen to enter the U.S. then they will be fully protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Wolves released in Mexico mountains near Arizona.
Arizona Star
Mexico is poised to release Mexican wolves near the border with Arizona and New Mexico where, if they cross into the U.S. they would have full protection under the Endangered Species Act. This is giving ranchers some heartburn but, short of violating the ESA, there is nothing they can do to stop it.
Two [...]
Continue Reading →No Mitigations for Endangered Mexican Wolves, Special Lands now Open Season, and Groups’ Trap Ban Request Tossed Aside
Santa Fe, NM. After years of waiting for the Game Commission to address trapping regulations, and a request to consider a ban on traps on public lands, the Game Commission will hold its public meeting on [...]
Continue Reading →A massive forest fire and sudden right-wing politics makes survival of the rarest wolf slimmer still-
New Mexico had a pretty good governor, Bill Richardson, in terms of wildlife, but he retired and was replaced by Susana Martinez of the far right. She replaced four members of the New Mexico State Game Commission, and they [...]
Continue Reading →Here is an important, but little reported story from Demarcated Landscapes-
Fire evacuations in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area.
Update: Arizona fire: Residents forced to flee as winds fuel blaze. Threats to towns rise as [...]
Continue Reading →Grows from 42 to 50 in the year 2010-
Finally there’s a little bit of good news about Mexican wolves. After the population stagnated well below the recovery figure of 100 wolves, I has declined in recent years. In 2010, on the strength of wild born pups and a halt on government killing for livestock [...]
Continue Reading →Biggest reward offered in some time for info on a wolf shooting-
Yet another collared Mexican gray wolf, F521 from the Fox Mountain Pack, found dead in December.
$58,000 Reward Offered in Arizona Wolf Shooting. Arizona Reporter
This reward was first offered in July for the killings of other collared Mexican gray wolves.
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Continue Reading →Great article in Demarcated Landscapes rejects the dominion of ranchers over the rest of us-
“. . . along comes this opinion piece from the Salt Lake City Tribune suggesting that if ranchers can’t make peace with the lobo, then the lobo cannot be recovered.
…in the battle between our deep-seated fears and our [...]
Continue Reading →Fighting back for once!
Democrats seek changes to wolf program. Albuquerque Journal
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