Mexican wolf restoration hits (another) snag The feds want to release captive animals to increase genetic diversity in the wild, but New Mexico isn’t having it. Earlier this year, things seemed to be looking up for the long-struggling effort to restore Mexican wolves to the Southwest. The population grew to more than 100, a threshold the 17-year-old effort hadn’t reached …
Kevin Bixby: Changing management of wolves is a bad idea – Las Cruces Sun-News
Kevin Bixby: Changing management of wolves is a bad idea By Kevin Bixby Guest column POSTED: 09/13/2015 01:00:00 AM MDT For people who don’t like them, it’s always time to end protection for wolves, so the title of Jim Harbison’s essay (“Time to end government protection for wolves,” Sept. 3) comes as no surprise. But as the saying goes, …
Wolf conservation hits permitting snag in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal fish and wildlife officials are appealing to the state to reconsider its rejection of two permits related to Mexican wolf conservation efforts. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1SB9lMl) this is the first year the state has denied the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s request to renew a permit to hold wolves at Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in southwestern …
State Game and Fish Dept. rejects federal request to release wolf pups
State Game and Fish Dept. rejects federal request to release wolf pups PUBLISHED: Monday, August 3, 2015 at 12:05 am SANTA FE – The state Department of Game and Fish has turned down requests from the federal government to release Mexican wolf pups and an adult pair onto U.S. Forest Service land in New Mexico this year. That followed the …