Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
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Fish and Wildlife also relisted both eastern and red wolves within a week of the 1973 act taking effect.
The southwestern subspecies of gray wolf, the by then perilously scarce Mexican wolf, acquired its listing as a U.S.
endangered species
in 1976.
Listing was the prelude to recovery.
In the 1980s, the Fish and Wildlife Service began to finalize plans for restoring wolves to the lower 48s western public lands under the umbrella of the Endangered Species Act's recovery mandate.
By then, a majority of Americans was beginning to internalize a changing attitude towards wolves.
Wealthier, better educated, and younger Americans, Westerners and Alaskans among them, were becoming wolf advocates.
In the wake of Canadian writer Farley Mowat's book, Never Cry Wolf, and the charming movie Disney made of it, many became downright enchanted with wolves.
even if biologists snickered that no wolves actually lived the way never-cry-wolves animals did.
Ranchers, older Americans, people without college degrees, folks who lived rurally, and many hunters who for decades had grown used to artificial, incomplete ecologies that left them as the only predators, thought the idea of recovering wolves was batshit crazy.
The animals' new human allies must be little more than wolf-loving hippies, they thought.
This was a divide that predicted a politicized future in a West that was fast sifting itself out as an old West and a new West, each with very different values.
America's wolf recovery moment everywhere faced complications both practical and bizarre.
For starters, there were those who didn't believe either red wolves or Mexican gray wolves actually existed.
The red wolf, an animal whose range began in the western parts of Texas and Oklahoma and extended eastward and northward to Florida and New England, looked suspiciously like a long-legged coyote.
Was it merely a gray wolf-coyote hybrid?
As for the Mexican wolf, it seemed barely distinguishable among the bewildering two dozen wolf subspecies 20th century canid zoology had offered up.
But early in the 21st century, the genetic revolution changed what we thought we knew about wolves, and biologists drastically pruned the canid tree.
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