Hope for the future with plans to reduce “controls” for livestock depredations?
High mortality for the small population of Mexican wolves continued this year with the population again ending at about 50 wolves. Under new management plans it is hoped that government wolf removal for killing livestock will abate.
A lot of this article is just blue sky exaggeration-
This article’s URL was emailed to me by someone familiar with the Mexican wolf program. Federal officials look for ways to make wolf recovery a success in the Southwest. By Susan Montoya Bryan. LA Times.
My email friend wrote: “I read these stories and […]
Continue Reading →Rare justice for a dead Mexican wolf-
NM man pleads guilty in wolf death. By Susan Montoya Bryan. Associated Press Writer
Continue Reading →As a note, David Parsons was director of the Mexican wolf recovery program in its early and more successful years. His Bush boss fired him. Several years ago, he won our “Alpha Award” (awarded by the Wolf Recovery Foundation).
Let science lift number of Mexican gray wolves. By Rich Fredrickson and David Parsons. The […]
Continue Reading →On the Mexican wolf recovery program-
“The [Mexican] wolves will go extinct,” Michael Robinson, conservation advocate with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, says. “If the program is continued exactly the way it is now, these wolves will go extinct.”
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In my view the federal government’s Mexican Wolf […]
Continue Reading →New controls complete after more than 60,000 air quality violations-
New controls. Farmington (NM) Daily Times.
This has long been a major polluter of the air and water of the 4-Corners country of the southwest.
Continue Reading →Legal success is only a first step, however-
Judge sides with environmentalists in wolf case.
By Susan Montoya Bryan. Associated Press Writer.
The victory was that the judge rejected the federal government’s motion to throw the case out.
Continue Reading →2008 was a year of no growth. It ended with 2 breeding pairs of wolves-
Update (2/6/09) Feds: Killings hamper Mexican wolf population – AP
Update (2/6/09) CBD Press Release – Mexican Wolf Breeding Pairs Drop to Two in 2008: Federal Trapping and Shooting Brings Reintroduced Population of Endangered Species to Brink of Collapse
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Continue Reading →Northern New Mexico rancher kills 39 pronghorn with a shotgun and ATV. By Jeff Jones. ABQJournal.com
Note this newspaper will let you read one article for free.
A 1997 New Mexico law allows ranchers to shoot “crop-threatening game.”
There is too much of this going on in the West, and it is time for […]
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