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Office of Law Enforcement
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Credit: USFWS
The carcass of Mexican gray wolf #1048 was recovered approximately four miles west of Hannagan Meadow in Arizona on October 21, 2007. Wolf #1048 was a wild born yearling female of the Rim Pack, with its parents being Alpha Male #992 (deceased) and Alpha Female #858. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suspects the wolf died from natural causes. The wolf carcass has been sent to the Service’s forensics laboratory for examination and their Office of Law Enforcement is investigating, per standard protocols. |
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| On September 28, 1972, the Division of Law Enforcement was created as successor to the Division of Management and Enforcement. A goal of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service is to continue its wildlife law enforcement arm as the most efficient and professional agency of its kind in the world. The changing nature of wildlife law violations, concomitant with new responsibilities mandated by Congress, necessitates change from time-to-time in the law enforcement program in order to meet these challenges and maintain the national flexibility to cope with contemporary wildlife law violators. |
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Last updated:
June 12, 2009
