http://www.kjzz.org/content/1308/mexican-gray-wolf-dies
By: Mark Brodie on 08/20/2013
Wildlife officials said a Mexican gray wolf [one of around 50 remaining on Earth] has died in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. Arizona Game and Fish officials said a field team was trying to fit radio-telemetry collars on some wolves last weekend. One female yearling was caught in a padded foot trap, and the animal moved into rocky terrain on the edge of a slope. By the time crews could get to the wolf, she was no longer breathing and could not be revived.
Authorities said this is only the third time they have had a capture-related death in the 15-year history of the Mexican wolf reintroduction project in Arizona and New Mexico. The Mexican gray wolf was added to the federal endangered species list in 1976.
The federal government recently announced Arizona, New Mexico and other states would share $850,000 to help reduce conflicts between the wolves and livestock.
Exposing the Big Game 
You gotta love our fabulous game and fish departments–they can’t resist killing everything around them, no matter the cause. They’re like–we didnt MEAN to do it! What a pile of endless crapp out of these agencies. And nobody really can control them–most of America doesn’t give a flying eff about what they’re doing.
They call themselves wildlife “managers” but they should change it “manipulators.”
This is unreal, losers how could they do such a thing
There must be job security in trapping, collaring and tracking wolves and other species. They are starting to see that, padded trap or not, just being trapped freaks an animal out and their struggles to free themselves can be fatal.
I know people want the wolves to run free but until this country gets it’s dark ages head and wildlife officials and employees out of it’s proverbial ass, progress on wild wolf release is going to end tragically. That money could be better spent on a very, very large fenced in mexican wolf habitat and vet care and food for these critically endangered wolves. We have to fence the idiots out and get some people who actually know what they are doing. This whole episode in wolf history is becoming surreal. It’s like Murphy’s Law but with real, critically endangered, highly intelligent, extremely sensitive creatures. A massive act of ignorance. The person who gave the order to use leg hold traps needs to be held accountable!
Unfortunately ,trapping and collaring wolves and other wildlife is standard practice for wildlife “managers.”
Due to the shyness of wolves and their intense need to form family bonds, being separated and abused will and does cause PTSD. Collars cause dead wolves, we all know by now that poachers zero in on the signal and blast the wolf. If they wanted some kind of ID on the wolf, do it before release into the wild. Use a microchip. W.S.has outlived it’s usefulness and the wild isn’t really wild anymore, spare a very few places with no access. I have often thought of the possible reuse of already securely fenced old military bases that BRAC closed down and sit empty in the middle of great wolf habitat. Thousands of acres of fenced in unused habitat, full of the usual rodent population that sustain wolves. That may be a stop gap solution to safety of the remaining Mexican Wolves? And it is sorely needed good PR the gov’t needs. Both sides win. The old PAFB now Pease Tradeport, has a good size wildlife area along Great Bay in NH. The housing/industrial/airport area was reused by the Air National Guard and businesses but the wild area is seperated by a road and a large bay on the seacoast. It is full of deer and other natural prey. Timber wolves would thrive there. I am positive there are other bases much more remote that would be just as useful. I will write to those on the BRAC commission and see if there is any interest if some folks here think it is something we should be looking into.
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