Mexican Wolf Project Holds Public Meetings to Discuss 2006 and Beyond

Mexican Wolf Project Holds Public Meetings to Discuss 2006 and Beyond

Short and long-term Mexican wolf management issues will be the topic of the upcoming Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Working Group public meetings on January 26 in Arizona and January 27 in New Mexico. The meetings are hosted quarterly by the six agencies involved with re-introducing wolves into the southwest.

The Arizona meeting on January 26 will be held in Thatcher from 4 to 8 p.m. at Eastern Arizona Activity Center, 1014 N. College Avenue. The New Mexico meeting on January 27 will be in Silver City from noon to 4 p.m. at Western NM University, Global Resource Center ABC Room, 1000 W. College (12th and Kentucky).

A topic for the January meetings is a discussion of proposed initial releases and translocations of Mexican wolves in 2006. End of the year population counts for breeding pairs determine whether or not there will be a moratorium on new releases of na