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Mexican Wolves

  • Wolves released in Mexico mountains near Arizona

    Ken Cole

    Mexico has released five Mexican gray wolves into a mountain range just south of the Arizona and New Mexico border. If the wolves happen to enter the U.S. then they will be fully protected under the Endangered Species Act. Wolves released in Mexico mountains near Arizona. Arizona Star

  • Mexico set to free gray wolves in NE Sonora

    Ken Cole

    Mexico is poised to release Mexican wolves near the border with Arizona and New Mexico where, if they cross into the U.S. they would have full protection under the Endangered Species Act. This is giving ranchers some heartburn but, short of violating the ESA, there is nothing they can do to stop it. Two stories:…

  • Game and Fish Department Enlarges Trapping Across New Mexico

    Brian Ertz

    No Mitigations for Endangered Mexican Wolves, Special Lands now Open Season, and Groups’ Trap Ban Request Tossed Aside Santa Fe, NM. After years of waiting for the Game Commission to address trapping regulations, and a request to consider a ban on traps on public lands, the Game Commission will hold its public meeting on trapping regulations…

  • Mexican gray wolves face new challenges in struggle for survival

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Big Arizona forest fire burns through Mexican wolf habitat (updated)

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is an important, but little reported story from Demarcated Landscapes- Fire evacuations in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. Update: Arizona fire: Residents forced to flee as winds fuel blaze. Threats to towns rise as governor declares a state of emergency. Arizona Republic. Update 2: Burnout to help endangered wolf pups in wildfire’s path.…

  • Mexican wolf population finally increases a bit

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • $58,000 Reward Offered in another Arizona Wolf Shooting

    Ralph Maughan

    Biggest reward offered in some time for info on a wolf shooting- Yet another collared Mexican gray wolf, F521 from the Fox Mountain Pack, found dead in December. $58,000 Reward Offered in Arizona Wolf Shooting. Arizona Reporter This reward was first offered in July for the killings of other collared Mexican gray wolves. Anyone with…

  • Mexican wolf recovery: a classic hegemonic struggle?

    Ralph Maughan

    Great article in Demarcated Landscapes rejects the dominion of ranchers over the rest of us- “. . . along comes this opinion piece from the Salt Lake City Tribune suggesting that if ranchers can’t make peace with the lobo, then the lobo cannot be recovered. …in the battle between our deep-seated fears and our hopes,…

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