Possible Gray Wolf Siting in New Mexico
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Possible gray wolf seen on northern NM ranch
By Barry Massey
ASSOCIATED PRESS10:41 a.m. July 1, 2008
SANTA FE – A possible gray wolf has been sighted on a ranch in northern New Mexico, raising the prospect that wolves may have migrated into the state from the Northern Rockies where they were reintroduced more than a decade ago.
There’s been no confirmed gray wolf in the wild in New Mexico since the animals were exterminated from the state in the early and mid-1900s.
The animal was seen several times and photographed on Vermejo Park Ranch, which is owned by media mogul Ted Turner. It was first spotted about a month ago, but government biologists have not been able to capture the animal to obtain genetic material to confirm whether it’s a wolf.
“We don’t know what it is. It looks like a gray wolf. It looks like a big black gray wolf. Where did it come from? We don’t know,” Mike Phillips, executive director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund in Bozeman, Mont., said Monday in a telephone interview.
“It’s not a coyote. It doesn’t mean it’s not a socialized gray wolf that somebody let go and it just wandered around and ended up in Vermejo. And it doesn’t mean it’s not a gray wolf that came out of the northern Rockies.”
If wolves eat a dog, cat, horse or any domestic animal owned by someone in northern NM, you can bet that all H— will break loose and the authorities will deal with it post haste. Not like here in southwestern NM, where humans are apparently superfluous.
I like (NOT!) how Massey’s article says there’s been no “confirmed grey wolf in the wild in New Mexico since…” What the heck are all those wolves in Catron County NM doing out there then? Another example of how the situation down here in Mexican wolf country doesn’t even come onto the radar of the rest of the world.
There will be a “Can’t Take It Any More” meeting in Reserve NM on Wednesday July 9, 10 a.m. at the Reserve Community Center. If you can’t take it any more, then get together with like-minded folks and stop taking it.
Contact Bill Aymar, Catron County Manager 575 533-6123 or ccmanag
July 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am