Mexican Wolf SOP 14.1: Trap Preparation and Use

Mexican Wolf SOP 14.1: Trap Preparation and Use
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This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) provides guidelines for preparing and maintaining foot-hold traps to capture Mexican wolves. This SOP represents, in part, the “Service Approved Management Plan” referenced in the 2022 Revised Experimental Population Rule (2022 10(j) Rule, 50 CFR 17.84(k)).

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A mexican wolf with a blue radio collar lays on the ground looking behind it
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...
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Albuquerque,NM
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Southwest