Mexican gray wolves are about the size of a German shepherd. Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Mexican gray wolf is the smallest, rarest, and southern-most occurring wolf in the United States. Once numbering in the thousands, Mexican wolves were eliminated from the U.S. landscape by 1970. Many factors contributed to […]
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The 2001 and 2005 program reviews identified a number of issues that are limiting the success of the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction, both in terms of the wolf population and in adequately addressing concerns of residents and visitors to the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. Reintroduction Issues Wolves moving beyond the boundary area are trapped […]
View Large Map Mexican wolves once ranged across New Mexico, Arizona, west Texas, northern Mexico, and possibly as far north as southern Utah and Colorado. Since their reintroduction, the released wolves have established home ranges of about 50 to 400 square miles within the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. Most wolf packs consist of two […]
Wolves are adaptable. They don’t require habitat management or manipulation to succeed. Rather, their interactions with humans make successful reintroduction a challenge. Agencies work together to manage interactions among wolves, livestock, and people, and have specific Standard Operating Procedures in place to guide them. Photo Courtesy of the Interagency Field Team Biologists and agency officials […]
