ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Game Commission has denied an appeal by the Turner Ladder Ranch for a permit to host Mexican wolves as part of a federal species recovery program.
Thursday’s unanimous decision caps a nearly eight-month saga in which the southwest New Mexico ranch owned by media mogul Ted Turner tried to convince the commission to reconsider its original denial in May.
The permit had been in place 17 years.
The Albuquerque Journal reports commission members invited the Turner Endangered Species Fund to reapply for a permit.
The ranch near the Gila National Forest provided pen space for wolves being released into, or temporarily removed from, the wild by the federal government since the program to reintroduce the endangered Mexican wolf began in 1998.
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Please this issue is far from over. the wolves still need your help. sign and share. Thank you
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/investigations/2016/01/27/poaching-slows-mexican-wolf-population-recovery/79349902/
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Aerial operations for the annual Mexican gray wolf population survey have begun in Arizona and New Mexico.
The reintroduction project is a multi-agency cooperative effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, U.S. Forest Service, White Mountain Apache Tribe and others.
The aerial operation started Tuesday and is scheduled to run until Feb. 3,
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After being wiped out in the U.S. and with only a few animals remaining in Mexico, Mexican gray wolves were bred in captivity and reintroduced to the wild in Arizona beginning in 1998. There are only about 300 Mexican wolves total in captivity.
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/mexicanwolf/pdf/NR_Mexican_Wolf_f10j_FINAL.pdf
Now is the time to get it to New Mexico Game Commission to reinstate Turner Ladder Ranch Permit to help the Mexican Gray Wolf.
