| NEWS
AND COMMENTARY February
11, 2020 -
The War on Wolves is Part of the Culture War. CounterPunch
January 30, 2020 -
Wolves Play a Beneficial Role in Wildlife Management.
CounterPunch
January
25, 2020 -
A rewilding triumph: wolves help to reverse Yellowstone degradation
Guardian
October
18, 2019 -
Leadership Lacking for Wolf Protection
CounterPunch August
20, 2019 -
Washington: outcry after last four wolves in pack killed by state
hunters. ... Environmental groups called deaths of wolves that had killed
or wounded cows since 2018 ‘unbelievably tragic’. Guardian
March
2, 2019 -
Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project - Initial Release and Translocation
Plan
for 2019  November
16, 2018 -
The Once Hated Wolf Could Now Save A Struggling Community.
... Wolf tourism is bringing more benefits than hunting. HuffPost
Related: Bill
That Would Drop Protections For Gray Wolves Passes House. ... Around 5,000 wolves
currently live in the lower 48 states. HuffPost
October
23, 2018 -
Challenge to Policy on Prosecuting Endangered-Species Hunters
Tossed. Courthouse
News June
4, 2018 -
Importance of Gila National Forest For Mexican Wolf Recovery.
Wildlands
Network February
6, 2018 -
Standoff Over Mexican Gray Wolf Continues in Southwestern U.S.
NatureNow
May
23, 2018 -
New Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern
Arizona Wildlife Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. New
Mexico Wild April
6, 2018 -
20th anniversary of release of Mexican wolves in wild. Chieftain
.pdf
March
15, 2018 -
NM, feds reach agreement on wolf releases. Albuquerque
Journal
.PDF version
September
2, 2017 -
Thousands weigh in on wolf recovery plan ... Just hours before
the Tuesday night deadline approached for the public to weigh in on a proposed
federal management plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf, more than 9,000
comments had been posted online. Thousands more had been submitted to U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service by mail — most opposing a wolf recovery plan that many
criticized as too restrictive to allow the species to thrive.
New
Mexican July
27, 2017 -
Call to the Wild - Mexican gray wolf recovery program faces
challenges. Chieftain
July
21, 2017 -
Goals
discussed at wolf recovery meeting -
Chieftain July
17, 2017 -
Speak up for Wolves - Attend upcoming meetings July
20th - T of C - 6 - 9pm
Civic Center, Ralph Edwards Auditorium, 400 W
4th July
22nd - Albuquerque, NM (Facebook
Event) -
Crowne Plaza Albuquerque 1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque,
NM 87102
(Prep
at the Wolf Den: 11 am - 12:45 pm
Rally: 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
FWS Meeting:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The
Trump administration has released a draft Mexican Wolf "Recovery" Plan,
and it is bad news for our struggling desert lobo wolves. ... This plan would
suppress wolf numbers, sharply limit their distribution and hand over the rare
wolves' management to political appointees on state game commissions -- people
who are selected in large part from among the livestock and hunting-outfitter
industries. Download
information July
5, 2017 -
Mexican
Wolf Draft Revised Recovery Plan released Chieftain
PDF
version
Release
range and spotting map: Recovery
information website 
Why
Killing Coyotes Doesn't Make Livestock Safer. TruthOut
Court Throws
Out Feds’ Misguided Policy Limiting Prosecution of Killers of Endangered
Wildlife. ... Late yesterday, a federal judge threw out the Department of Justice’s
flawed ‘McKittrick Policy’ under which the government only prosecuted
killers of animals on the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) list of imperiled
species when it could prove the killer knew the exact biological identity of the
species s/he was harming. The decision came as a result of a challenge brought
by WildEarth Guardians and the
New
Mexico Wilderness Alliance in 2013. Line
of descent: How poor management left Mexican wolves dangerously inbred. ... Missteps
and conflict between the state and the feds have hounded the recovery of Arizona
and New Mexico’s remaining wolf packs. High
Country News
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April
27, 2017 -
Court Lifts Injunction Blocking Mexican Gray Wolf Releases.
... The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April 25, 2017, to lift a preliminary
injunction blocking further releases of highly endangered Mexican gray wolves
into the wild within New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) can
now resume wolf releases within the state. NM
Wild
Map of Wolf Population areas
April
27, 2017 -
Official: Cattle attacked by wolf - Chieftain
Five
ways you are subdizing meat production.
With traps, snares, poisons, gas,
and aerial gunning, the USDA’s Wildlife Services has killed more than 34
million animals in the last decade to protect the livestock operations of private
meat producers, according to official records. The take in 2015 alone included
68,905 coyotes, 731 bobcats, 480 bears, 385 wolves, and 284 mountain lions. More
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Sept
8, 2016 - The recent killing of six members of the Profanity Peak wolf pack
in NE Washington in retribution for the loss of a few cattle is emblematic of
what is wrong with public land policy - More here: Slaughtering
the Profanity Pack: Losing Wolves and Academic Freedom How
wolves can altger the course of rivers. Wolves
were once native to the US' Yellowstone National Park -- until hunting wiped them
out. But when, in 1995, the wolves began to come back (thanks to an aggressive
management program), something interesting happened: the rest of the park began
to find a new, more healthful balance.
For
More Wonder, Rewild The world - TED Talk August
7, 2016 - Wolf
Issue resolved July
11, 2016 - Federal investigation:
Wolf program was mishandled
Less than a quarter of one percent, 0.23%, of the American cattle
inventory was lost to native carnivores and dogs in
2010, according to a Department of Agriculture report.
Synopsis of
the report June
16, 2016 - Judge
temporarily stops release
June
16, 2016 - Keep
politics out of wolf release
May
14, 2016 - (ABQ Journal)
State
seeking to stop release of wolves May
5, 2016 - Sheriff
may try to stop wolves’ release in Socorro County March
2, 2016 - Chieftain - 110
Wolves counted in AZ and NM release areas
Socorro
County Commission voted unanimously to ban release in the county. This decision
has no legal standing. Wolf release is a federal issue. . November
26 - Let wolf lovers raise
wolves
November
18 - Wildlife
folks were missing November
11 - County
Passes Wolf Ordiance November
10 - Oregon
Wolves Lose Endangered Species Protections
November 5th -
Wolves
at the ‘back door’ (Chieftain) November
5th -
Wolves
at the ‘back door’ (Chieftain)
October
31 - [IMPORTANT
NEWS]
The Socorro
county commission has already adopted an anti-wolf fear based resolution (download
here) and is now considering adopting an anti-wolf county ordinance (download
here) The Center for Biological Diversity will give a presentation
Thursday, Nov. 5 about Mexican wolves, their importance to wild places
and how the mountains of Socorro county fit in to saving them. Please
join Michael Robinson from the Center and to learn more about wolves, new rules
for their management that were adopted in 2015 and the proposed county ordinance.
What:
Presentation, Return the wolf to the San Mateo Mountains
When:
Thursday, November 5th at 6-7:30 PM
Where:
the Socorro Public Library, 401 Park Street, Socorro, NM
Please bring and
tell a friend!
Mary
Katherine Ray
Wildlife Chair
Rio Grande Chapter Sierra Club
575-772-5655
PS.
Also mark your calendar for the County Commission meeting on Tuesday, November
10 at 10 AM at the County annex building at 198 Neel St in Socorro. Commissioners
will be voting on the anti-wolf ordinance and each member of the public will be
allowed 2 minutes of testimony. Let's show the Socorro county commission that
wolves have friends here! October
23 -
Wolf
Release Cleared | 
