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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: wolfbait on June 29, 2018, 07:10:50 PM
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Can Mexican gray wolves survive in Mexico? Ranchers, advocates square off in familiar debate
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/05/13/ranchers-advocates-square-off-mexican-gray-wolf/387423002/
The first wolves were released under cover of darkness.
It had to be a secret, Rascσn said. No one else in the area wanted these wolves.
In November 2011, Mexican officials found the carcass of a Mexican gray wolf near a ranch in Sonora, poisoned and left to die.
A few weeks later, in December, officials found three more dead wolves, all poisoned, their skin showing similar lesions.
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Wolves are being seen here in Arizona. So I know they can survive.
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/09/11/researchers-say-mexican-gray-wolf-dna-isnt-contaminated-dog-genes/904720002/
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2018/09/11/researchers-say-mexican-gray-wolf-dna-isnt-contaminated-dog-genes/904720002/
The first wolves that the USFWS put in as the "endangered" Mexican wolves were bred up using dog, in fact some of those dog/wolf hybrids had to be put down because of too much dog. That info. is posted here on H-W, probably in 2009.
Who knows what additional wolves have been thrown into the mix and called Mexican wolves. I trust the USFWS as much as I trust WDF&Wolves. Zero