The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently directed the USDA to kill two Mexican gray wolves.
One, a 3-month-old female pup in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, was shot from the air on Aug. 12. The other, a young adult male in the Bear Canyon Pack in Arizona’s Apache National Forest, remains alive.
The Center for Biological Diversity urged federal and state agencies to rescind the kill order, citing the potential impact on wolf recovery efforts and the genetic integrity of the subspecies.
