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See our webpage: "Mexican Wolf" -- for vital links and full background info.
Here are our posts, for "Blog for Wolves" -- about efforts to restore healthy wild wolf populations...
Government Goes After Flagstaff Wolf Family
October 4, 2024
“Mexican gray wolves belong in the Grand Canyon region –- scientists and conservationists agree. Wolves are critical to ensuring healthy ecosystems,” said Sandy Bahr. “The Flagstaff community has welcomed these wolves -- AZGFD should let them be!”
Student Group Names Wandering Wolf “Hope”
July 30, 2024
Flagstaff, Ariz.— Arizona students proposed a new name for Mexican gray wolf F2979, calling her “Hope.” She was captured and collared by the AGFD earlier this month. The agency intends to use her to locate any packmates and return them to recovery...
Letter Urges Mexican Gray Wolves to Be Released as Families
June 25, 2024
Conservation organizations today asked the U.S. FWS to release captive-born Mexican gray wolf pairs together with their pups into AZ and NM -- Releases of wolf families that survive and breed would diversify the wild population’s depleted gene pool.
Conservationists celebrate lobo cross-fostering successes but concerns remain about genetic crisis and freeze on wolf family releases
May 26, 2023
"“The US Fish and Wildlife Service must act now to add well-bonded families of wolves into the wild to address the genetic emergency and better aid recovery of Mexican wolves.” To date, 99 pups have been fostered...but only 14 [reached breeding age]
Our 2022 Overview of Arizona Legislature
August 4, 2022
Our "2022 Environmental Report Card for the Arizona Legislature and Governor" (21 pages) -- The 2022 Legislative Session was again long and unproductive, regarding the major environmental issues facing our state -- The attacks on democracy...
Mexican Gray Wolf Rule Eliminates Cap on Population, Restricts Killing
May 13, 2022
SILVER CITY, N.M.— New Federal Management Rule Still Falls Short on Genetic Diversity by Rejecting Science-Based Reforms -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed today that it will eliminate its current population cap of 325 Mexican gray...
5% More Mexican Gray Wolves Yet Still on Brink of Extinction
March 30, 2022
Phoenix, Arizona – ...The wild population of Mexican gray wolves has seen a small increase ...to a minimum of 196 wolves. However, this slight increase [...reveals] high mortality (including illegal killing), low pup survival, and a deepening...
Comments to USFWS on Rules for Wild Mexican Wolves
January 27, 2022
To USFWS (Wash DC): "On behalf of the Rio Grande and Grand Canyon Chapters of the Sierra Club, please accept these comments on the draft revisions to the 2015 ESA Section 10(j) rule for the wild population of Mexican Wolves. The following changes...
Mexican Gray Wolf "Anubis" Returns to Northern Arizona
October 27, 2021
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Wandering Mexican gray wolf m2520 (named “Anubis” by schoolkids) has once again made his way north of Interstate 40, the arbitrary current boundary of the federal wolf recovery area. He had occupied habitat west and north of...
ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT WON’T LET WOLVES BE WILD
June 24, 2021
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Conservation groups are voicing opposition today to the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s pursuit to capture a solitary Mexican gray wolf who has been living peacefully in the national forests north of Williams and Flagstaff for...