Mexican gray wolves

12/26/2025

12/23/2025

When agencies create and enforce boundaries, such as state lines and experimental population boundaries in NM and AZ, there are not only concerns about the risks of death and injury inherent in any wildlife capture, but also a concern that transcends potential impacts on individual wolves. Such high-level and sustained intervention focused on only allowing certain wolves in certain places doesn’t allow widespread and meaningful recovery of wild wolves across their historic range and may be an ineffective use of taxpayer and conservation dollars. Priority for time, funding and other resources should be dedicated to actually conserving and protecting wolves, not moving them according to political whims.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a gray wolf in Grand County last week after the animal was returned to the state by the New Mexico wildlife agency. While the action was guided by an interstate...

12/23/2025

Removing federal protection for Mexican gray wolves, as AZ Rep. Gosar's bill proposes to do, could reverse decades of work. We’re on the cusp of an American wildlife success story, like the bald eagle or the American alligator. It would be extraordinarily unfortunate if the legislative branch stepped in now, when we are really making progress.

A new bill from Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar looks to remove endangered species protections.

12/22/2025

For the second time in as many years, a bipartisan coalition introduced a bill in the U.S. House to ban using snowmobiles to run over wolves and other predators on federal lands. The act was inspired by a wolf torture incident in Wyoming in 2024, but that incident was not isolated. Wolves need freedom from harm wherever they may roam.

For the second time in as many years, a bipartisan coalition introduced a bill in the U.S. House to ban using snowmobiles to run over wolves and other…

12/22/2025

A new study finds that Montanans are becoming increasingly tolerant of wolves in general, but wolf hunters and trappers are some of the least tolerant in the state. Why is tolerance on the rise? Analysis suggests that, as Montanans have now lived for years with wolves, the majority of their interactions with wolves are self-described as positive. People enjoy hearing howls or seeing tracks, and wolves rarely cause damage and almost never threaten people. These predominantly positive interactions - and perhaps the lack of meaningfully negative interactions - bolster people’s attitudes. Wolves don’t seem to live up to their big bad reputation, and, over time, people notice.

Montanans are becoming increasingly tolerant of wolves in general, but wolf hunters and trappers are some of the least tolerant in the state, according to new Montana research.

12/21/2025

Wolves disperse widely by nature, according to their own instinct and knowledge of the land. A single northern wolf crossing into NM is not a genetic threat to Mexican wolves. What is a threat and waste of limited management funding is policing wolf movement along state lines instead of following robust science. https://www.pagosasun.com/stories/colorado-gray-wolf-that-crossed-into-new-mexico-captured-and-returned-to-state,116402

12/20/2025

Rep. Boebert’s wolf delisting bill is a deadly invitation to trophy hunt wolves to extinction. Stripping these amazing animals of protection while they’re still fighting to survive isn’t conservation, it’s cruelty. Wolves belong in the wild, not mounted on someone’s wall.

Bill contains a provision preventing courts from reviewing legislation, similar to initial wolf delisting in Rocky Mountain states

12/20/2025

Advocates for the Mexican gray wolf, which was reintroduced into Southern New Mexico in the 1990s, have long argued that Mexican wolves should be permitted to roam — and breed — in habitat above the northern boundary of the subspecies’ Experimental Population Area demarcated by Interstate 40. Mexican gray wolves who have lost so much genetic diversity would greatly benefit from integration with northern gray wolves in the southern Rockies of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Capturing wolves who cross political boundaries stymies recovery.

For the first time since Colorado voters approved a program five years ago that has reintroduced gray wolves in the state, wildlife officials reported that a Colorado gray wolf had

12/19/2025

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 211-204 to pass a bill (H.R. 845) that would strip gray wolves of federal protections across the country, if made into law. This would upend decades of work to recover gray wolves. Removing ESA protections would open the door to unrestricted harm like wolf hunts, hinder efforts to recover wolves within their historic range and risk destabilizing ecosystems.

U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany cosponsored the bill this year with Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and 30 other lawmakers.