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Article - Future of the Lobo
The Future by Alan P. Lacy SW Wolf Recovery Outreach
SL - winter 2014 12
As the Mexican wolf continues towards its recovery,
its future remains in the balance between man and nature. At the end of 2013, eighty-three wild-born Mexican wolves roamed the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area (BRWRA) of Arizona and New Mexico. The BRWRA is an area nearly twice the size of Yellowstone National Park, comprising roughly 4.4 million acres of forest, grasslands, and meadows. The wolves share this landscape with a variety of human activities such as hunting, camping, ranching, farming, and hiking, as nearly all of this area is on public land. Currently wolves are restricted to remain inside the boundaries of the BRWRA, which means as the number of wolves increases, so do the number of human and wolf conflicts. Recent proposals by the US Fish and Wildlife Service may offer a temporary reprieve from the current situation however.