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FWS needs to protect and recover the lobo
The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, is one of the most endangered carnivores in the world. After lobos were nearly wiped out, reintroduction began in 1998 in remote areas of New Mexico and Arizona, including such iconic Wildernesses as the Gila Wilderness, and the Blue Range Wilderness and Primitive Area. Since then, recovery has been slow and turbulent.
In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided that the only wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the U.S. was not “essential” under the Endangered Species Act to the recovery of Mexican gray wolves as a species. Conservationists sued, and in 2018, a U.S. district judge told the USFWS to write a new management rule for the lobo—one based on the best available science.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently sought public comments on a new Mexican Wolf 10(j) Rule. Wolves need and deserve the maximum protection possible, and the agency needs to recover w
Urge the USFWS to do its job to protect and recover lobos by designating them “an essential” population so they have full legal protection, by requiring the release of well-bonded wolf families into the wild, by expanding their range to allow for several populations of lobos, by removing the current population cap of 325 wolves, by proactively reducing and preventing conflicts with livestock, and by protecting wolves from poaching and other human-caused death.
Photo: Valerie via Flickr
You made a difference for Wilderness in CA
Thanks to comments from our members and supporters, the Forest Service (FS) has issued a draft Environmental Assessment that excludes Wilderness, Wilderness Study Areas, recommended Wilderness, and roadless areas from its Region 5 Post Disturbance Hazardous Tree Management Project. This project could have included more than a dozen Wildernesses within the sprawling project area across 10 National Forests in California.
Take down the fence and save Tule elk at Point Reyes
As a tragedy continues at Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California, Wilderness Watch is urging the National Park Service (NPS) to end the tragic, ongoing deaths of rare Tule elk at Point Tomales in the Phillip Burton Wilderness, by taking down the fence so elk can access food and water.
Good news for the Hoover Wilderness
Good news for brown bears in the Kenai Refuge
On November 13, 2020, a federal court ruled in favor of protecting brown bears in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) and Wilderness in Alaska. The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge includes approximately 2 million acres of important wildlife habitat and more than 1.3 million acres of Wilderness.
Park Service must do better for Wilderness in Olympic
Wilderness Watch is urging the National Park Service to adopt a wilderness-compatible alternative for addressing the boardwalk on the Cape Alava and Sand Point trails in Olympic National Park in Washington. Ninety-five percent of the Park is designated Wilderness, including this northwestern corner on the Pacific Coast.
Helicopters and landscaping don't belong in Sequoia NP Wilderness
Wilderness Watch is urging the National Park Service (NPS) to drop a proposal to use helicopters and plant tens of thousands of giant sequoia seedlings in the remote Board Camp Grove in the John Krebs Wilderness in California.
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