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Mexican Wolves

  • Wolf-recovery program now 'at risk of failure'

    Ken Cole

    Cumulative impacts of many factors cited A new report by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service assesses the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and the news isn’t good. Cumulatively there are many risks for the population.  Among them are poaching, too many controls related to depredation, small litter sizes and low pup survival possibly related to…

  • US Fish and Wildlife Service must rule soon on the Mexican Wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    Conservation groups seek endangered species status. Judge tells USFWS to make up their mind quickly- The restoration of the Mexican wolf under the experimental, non-essential rule that guided the restoration of wolves to the Northern Rockies has been a fiasco. Groups want to give the rare wolf fully endangered status, which has more teeth.  USFWS…

  • Mexico to place 5 wolves near AZ

    Ken Cole

    REINTRODUCTION PLANNED AS EARLY AS THIS MONTH This story appeared last week while I was gone and there was a little discussion about it on the open thread but I think it deserves its own thread. The significance of this story is not so much that wolves are being released into the wild but that…

  • Mexican wolf population dipping

    Ralph Maughan

    Only 42 Mexican wolves! This was contributed by “TallTrent” on “Have you run across any interesting news?” – – – – – On December 28,  I posted an article about the status of Mexican wolves that was pessimistic, but some folks from the area commented that things were looking up.  This story casts doubt on…

  • Mexican wolves have as bad a year in '09 as in '08

    Ralph Maughan

    Hope for the future with plans to reduce “controls” for livestock depredations? High mortality for the small population of Mexican wolves continued this year with the population again ending at about 50 wolves. Under new management plans it is hoped that government wolf removal for killing livestock will abate. Another deadly year for Mexican wolf.…

  • Re-imagining Mexican gray wolf recovery

    Ralph Maughan

    A fine essay from the blog “Wild Muse”- When other web sites link to this one, I can see it in the statistics page (accessible to the blog’s editors). I noticed Wild Muse (not to be confused with our frequent commenter “Wilderness Muse”) had linked to a story. I followed it back and found this…

  • Federal officials [said to] look for ways to make Mexican wolf recovery a success in the Southwest

    Ralph Maughan

    A lot of this article is just blue sky exaggeration- This article’s URL was emailed to me by someone familiar with the Mexican wolf program. Federal officials look for ways to make wolf recovery a success in the Southwest. By Susan Montoya Bryan. LA Times. My email friend wrote: “I read these stories and I…

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service retakes helm of Mexican wolf management

    Ralph Maughan

    Lawsuit settlement results in USFWS reclaiming decision-making authority over Mexican wolves- Folks are now hopeful that the failing effort to restore the Mexican wolf is out of the hands of a committee that had become captive to local anti-wolf interests. Deal on Mexican Gray Wolf. Associated Press in the New York Times – – –…

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