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State says it will sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife over wolf release plan 

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We need to tell New Mexico and Arizona to take a hike!!! The Feds are just fulfilling the ESA requirements!! The same that these states need to fulfill! SANTA FE — New Mexico officials notified the federal government today they will sue to block the planned release of more Mexican gray wolves without the state’s OK. The state Department of …

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The Yellowstone National Park We Don’t See: A Struggle of Life and Death

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Part two in our series on the park takes us into the backcountry, where predator and prey form a delicate balance in a great ecosystem. In 1995 and 1996, some 70 years after Yellowstone’s last wolf howled its last howl, 31 wolves from western Canada were released from acclimation pens across the park. They took hold of the landscape, they …

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Cochise County spending thousands to keep endangered wolf out of region

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SOUTHEAST ARIZONA — Inside a large chain-link cage at the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center, a Mexican gray wolf gently moves from behind a tree and into the open air. It stands in the midday sun, dark-lined eyes looking intently beyond the fence, before settling under the tree for shade. This is one of 16 wolves at the north Scottsdale center, …

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Wolves on Isle Royale ‘most certainly headed for extinction

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  Had Federal officials been proactive versus reactive, this Wolf Population could have been maintained. The wolf population on Isle Royale is “most certainly headed for extinction.” That’s the prognosis from researchers at Michigan Technological University, which put out its annual look at how the wolves (and moose) on the island are doing. Isle Royale is located in Lake Superior, …