Dan Flores
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first heard Dec 2024
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in the evolutionary homeland of Earth's canids.
In 2018, a genetic tour de force by the National Academy of Sciences finally gave both Mexican and red wolves full legitimacy.
The Mexican wolf as a viable subspecies distinct from other gray wolves and the red wolf as a true ancient species and not merely a coyote-gray wolf hybrid.
While Mexican wolf recovery struggled for years and their genetic diversity is still not high, in 2026, there are nearly 300 wild Mexican wolves roaming the southwest.
In 2015, a new ESA rule enlarged their recovery zone to extend to the boundaries of Texas and California on east and west.
then strangely chose Interstate 40, which tracks across the southwest from Amarillo to Kingman, Arizona, as the northern perimeter.
A new recovery plan in 2017 confirmed those boundaries and set the maximum Mexican wolf population at 325 animals.
A couple of years ago, I asked Dave Parsons, Mexican wolf recovery coordinator from 1990 to 1999, for his thoughts on the future of Mexican wolves.
Dave essentially agreed with the Center for Biological Diversity.
Mexican wolves ought to be allowed to expand their range to the Grand Canyon and into the Southern Rockies for a healthy Mexican wolf population of 750 animals across the Southwest.
But as he put it, I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
The wolf recovery that thrilled people across the world unspooled to international headlines in the northern Rocky Mountains.
I was living in Montana at the time it happened with a girlfriend who worked for Hank Fisher and Defenders of Wildlife, so I had a front row seat for what seemed the game of the century.
Prior to this moment, the last time anyone had seen a wolf even in our one wildlife park, Yellowstone, was 1926.
But soon after endangered species legislation passed in the 1960s, biologists in various agencies and universities began conferring about how to get wolves back.
The 1975 Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan identified Yellowstone and Glacier Parks, along with the biggest wilderness area in the lower 48, Montana's Bitterroot Mountains west into Idaho,
as the logical recovery zones.
The plan released 15 wolves a year for five years until there were at least 10 breeding pairs in each zone.
Before human-assisted wolf recovery in the Rocky Mountains proceeded though, something happened that has now become a general principle of Western wolf recovery.
On their own, wolves began recolonizing the West.
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