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Mexican Wolves

  • Conservationists Request Suspension of Mexican Wolf-Killing “Predator Control” Policy

    Ralph Maughan

    This important story on the Mexican wolves is from Wild Again, the Sinapu blog.  The story has also been in a number of newspapers the last day or so.  Conservationists Request Suspension of Mexican Wolf-Killing “Predator Control” Policy post 1113

  • Catron County targets new wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    This is an attempt to remove yet another of the very endangered Mexican wolves who are now down to just 4 breeding pairs in the wild. Removal of this wolf would make it just 3 breeding pairs. Worse still, this female wolf is pregnant. Because the Mexican wolves were derived from just 8 wolves, (they…

  • Divide Wide Over Mexican Wolf Program

    Ralph Maughan

    This is bad news for the struggling Mexican wolf program, but the blame is on these rural counties who for years have believed that obeying the law is optional. I am not just badmouthing them, this was heart of county secession, militia movement back in the 1990s. Story in the Las Cruces Sun News. AP…

  • Yet another removal order issued for a rare Mexican wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    Story in the Las Cruces Sun-News. AP

  • The Country Formerly Known as Wolf?

    Ralph Maughan

    By Halina Szyposzynski   The military has its “five-o’clock follies.”  The Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Work Group (MWAMWG) has its “quarterly quirks.”  Items from the January 27th meeting:    ·         After receiving complaints from Greenlee County residents, wolf managers are removing the phrase “Wolf Country” from signage advising of wolf presence in the Blue Range…

  • Another Mexican wolf alpha to bite the dust

    Ralph Maughan

    By Jean Ossorio. The alpha male of the San Mateo pack–one of the handful of breeding pairs (six or seven, depending on how you interpret the definition in the Final Rule) at the end of 2006–has been slapped with a removal order by the USFWS for a third livestock depredation within 365 days. The rest…

  • Mexican Gray Wolf Numbers Are Dangerously Low. Only Six Breeding Pairs Cling To Life In The Wild

    Ralph Maughan

    Although the recovery of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies has been pretty successful, recovery of the smaller, sub-species Mexican Gray Wolf in Arizona and New Mexico, has been poor. Ten years after they began to be reintroduced, there are only 6 breeding pairs in the two states, and as the article below states, the…

  • Regulations Fence Out Successful [Mexican] Wolf Reintroduction

    Ralph Maughan

    The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit Dec. 14 to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to implement reforms to the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program that a scientific panel had urged back in June 2001. This was a wolf restoration program that was designed in a way that it could not possibly succeed.…

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