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For Immediate Release -- as excerpted from full PDF (2-pages)
July 30, 2024
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- Claire Musser, Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, (928) 202-1325, claire@gcwolfrecovery.org
- Cyndi Tuell, Western Watersheds Project, (520) 272-2454, cyndi@westernwatersheds.org
- Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
- Erin Hunt, Lobos of the Southwest, (928) 421-0187, erin@mexicanwolves.org
Student Group Names Wandering Wolf “Hope”
2021 Flagstaff Council Resolution supported Mexican wolves in northern Arizona
Flagstaff, Ariz.— Arizona students proposed a new name for Mexican gray wolf F2979, calling her “Hope.” She was captured and collared by the Arizona Game and Fish Department earlier this month. The agency intends to use her to locate any packmates north of Interstate 40 and then to send them back into the bounds of the current recovery area. Hope and at least one other wolf have been roaming the lands west of Flagstaff since early June 2024, earning them the moniker of the “Kendrick Peak pack” ...
