ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal wildlife officials on Thursday defended their strategy for reintroducing Mexican gray wolves to the American Southwest despite recording the first decline in the population in four years. The annual survey released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows at least 97 wolves are spread among forested lands in southwestern New Mexico and southeast …
Wolf Supporters Urge Gov. Ducey to End State Interference with Wolf Recovery
BACKGROUND: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service convened a recovery planning team in 2010 that included a Science and Planning Subgroup made up of some of the top wolf experts in the country. The Science and Planning Subgroup developed draft recommendations for recovery of the Mexican gray wolf based on the best available science, which included the following: In addition …
4 Corners Governors are spreading misinformation in a recent letter to the federal government
SALT LAKE CITY — Wildlife advocates chided state government leaders in four Western states on Thursday for trying to keep land out of a potential recovery zone for Mexican gray wolves, an endangered species. In addition to a demonstration Thursday in Santa Fe, organizations advocating for the wolves held news conferences and rallies in the capital cities of Utah, Colorado, …
Kevin Bixby: Changing management of wolves is a bad idea – Las Cruces Sun-News
Changing management of wolves is a bad idea!! People like Jim Harbison should be fined from reporting fraudulent facts regarding Wolves…. Or banned from outright lying in the public eye!! 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) …