The aftermath of the 2011 156,000-acre Los Conchas Blaze in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner
A recent commentary 30×30 not the answer to stop destructive wildfires by Jerry G. Schickedanz, has numerous inaccurate assumptions about wildfire.
His comments repeat many common misunderstandings of fire ecology and […]
Continue Reading →Arizona and New Mexico might be calming down a bit as the multitude of wildfires are now igniting to the north-
May and June are almost always the peak months of wildfires in the southwest — Arizona and New Mexico. By late June monsoonal rains usually dampen these fires. In the meantime, the cooler and […]
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 →Long time wildlife foe, Pearce spreading lies about protecting lizard and jobs-
Politics and reality clash in New Mexico. Posted on May 1, 2011 by Bob Berwyn. Summit County Citizens Voice.
Although he was out of office for a couple years, newly elected […]
Continue Reading →Pit bull mixes attacked while she was on a walk-
I won’t bother to say the obvious about the danger of dogs versus wolves.
Killer dogs attack. Idaho Statesman.
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 →Famed former Baca Ranch could emerge as national park after failed “free market” experiment-
I have never been to this famous New Mexico supervolcano area with its scenic, but degraded grasslands and forests. The area is notable for its elk, but the herd is much smaller than it could be due to the competition with […]
Continue Reading →Cumulative impacts of many factors cited
A new report by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service assesses the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and the news isn’t good.
Cumulatively there are many risks for the population. Among them are poaching, too many controls related to depredation, small litter sizes and low pup survival possibly related […]
Continue Reading →REINTRODUCTION PLANNED AS EARLY AS THIS MONTH
This story appeared last week while I was gone and there was a little discussion about it on the open thread but I think it deserves its own thread.
The significance of this story is not so much that wolves are being released into the wild but that […]
Continue Reading →Only 42 Mexican wolves!
This was contributed by “TallTrent” on “Have you run across any interesting news?”
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On December 28, I posted an article about the status of Mexican wolves that was pessimistic, but some folks from the area commented that things were looking up. This story casts doubt […]
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