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https://www.williamsnews.com/news/2018/sep/04/study-mexican-wolves-outside-historical-range-thre/
Arizona Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have determined Mexican wolf conservation efforts will be focused south of the I-40 corridor.
Originally Published: September 4, 2018 10:14 a.m.
PHOENIX — The latest international research study on Mexican wolves says that encouraging recovery of the endangered subspecies north of its outlined historical range would be detrimental to preserving the wolf’s unique characteristics.
The leading wildlife science journal Biological Conservation recently highlighted the new research, further rebuking calls for Mexican wolves to be released far outside their historical range, defined as southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. Doing so would encourage genetic mixing with northwestern wolves originally from Canada, which threatens the genetic uniqueness of the Mexican wolf.
“The latest science clearly shows that Mexican wolf dispersal outside the species’ historical range before…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Whenever I read about government officials ‘interpreting’ the Endangered Species Act, I get worried. And that is doubly so when they are not biologists or zoologists.