Mexican Wolf SOP 2.1: Writing and Approving SOPs

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) establishes the process for developing and approving Mexican Wolf Recovery Program SOPs. This SOP represents, in part, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife “Service-approved management plan” referenced in the 2022 Revised Experimental Population Rule.

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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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