Daily Postcard: An adult male Mexican wolf in brushy landscape March 13 at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge about 20 miles north of Socorro (this one was not spotted at the Valles Caldera National Preserve). A female Mexican wolf was spotted howver, roaming around the Valles Caldera for about a month last November. Once common throughout parts of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, the Mexican wolf was all but eliminated from the wild by the 1970s due to conflicts with livestock. In 1976, the Mexican wolf was listed as endangered and a binational captive breeding program was initiated soon after to save this unique gray wolf from extinction. In 1998, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service released the first captive Mexican wolves into the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area in Arizona and New Mexico. Absent from the landscape for over 30 years, the resounding howl of the endangered Mexican wolf could once again be heard in the mountains of the Southwest. Source: the U.S Fish and Wildlife Servicehttps://www.fws.gov/program/conserving-mexican-wolf Source: U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo by Aislinn Maestas/USFWS
Daily Postcard: Male Mexican Wolf Spotted At Sevilleta
Daily Postcard: An adult male Mexican wolf in brushy landscape March 13 at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge about 20 miles north of Socorro (this one was not spotted at the Valles Caldera National Preserve). A female Mexican wolf was spotted howver, roaming around the Valles Caldera for about a month last November. Once common throughout parts of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, the Mexican wolf was all but eliminated from the wild by the 1970s due to conflicts with livestock. In 1976, the Mexican wolf was listed as endangered and a binational captive breeding program was initiated soon after to save this unique gray wolf from extinction. In 1998, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service released the first captive Mexican wolves into the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area in Arizona and New Mexico. Absent from the landscape for over 30 years, the resounding howl of the endangered Mexican wolf could once again be heard in the mountains of the Southwest. Source: the U.S Fish and Wildlife Servicehttps://www.fws.gov/program/conserving-mexican-wolf Source: U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo by Aislinn Maestas/USFWS