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January 10 ,
2005
The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its five-year
review of the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program. The
agency still is not ready to take necessary steps recommended
in the previous three-year review to allow the program to
succeed.
Those
steps include allowing released wolves to disperse beyond
program geographic boundaries, requiring ranchers to remove
dead livestock (so they don’t train wolves to eat livestock),
and allowing direct release of wolves into New Mexico.
USFWS
will hold open houses in Arizona and New Mexico to gather
comments on the five-year review, with exact locations yet
to be determined. Here's the Arizona schedule:
--January
28, 6-9 p.m., at Alpine, Arizona
--January 29, 6-9 p.m., at Phoenix, Arizona
--March 15 is the deadline for written comments
To
read the five-year review and instructions about how to submit
comments, go to http://ifw2es.fws.gov/mexicanwolf/FiveYearReview.cfm.
If
you would like to volunteer to get involved on this issue,
please contact us at adla@adlaz.org.
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