Catron County New Mexico acts of wolf ordinance

[Liberty Belle]

Catron County Acts on Wolf Ordinance: Commissioners demand removal of newly released wolf

Reserve, New Mexico - On Thursday, April 26, 2007, the Catron County Commission met in an emergency session to invoke the County's newly passed Amended Ordinance 001-2007, An Ordinance Setting Forth Wolf-Human Incident Emergency Protective Measures.

The emergency meeting was called in response to the release of a pregnant female wolf of the Durango Pack, Wolf F924, with a prior history of cattle depredation ("two strikes" from 2006) and, more important, with a record of having bitten a human – an action which, according to Mexican Wolf Standard Operating Procedures, should have resulted in the wolf being euthanized last November when the incident occurred.

The Commission sent a letter of demand to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for immediate removal of the wolf from the Mexican Wolf Program because the wolf is by definition a threat to human safety as per the ordinance and federal regulation.

The Commission's letter states that the wolf is familiar with the release area since it was captured from that area less than half a year ago, and has a strong history of predation.

The Commission further states that the wolf is likely to be human habituated (lacking the human avoidance behavior of wild wolves) since it is less than two years old, but has been captured and handled more than seven times already.

Although the Catron County Commission had been informed that the female wolf was to be released on April 25 along with a male wolf.

In fact, the two wolves were released on April 24, according to an Arizona Game and Fish news release.

The release area is within 10 miles of a retirement community and is near areas where cattle are present with young calves.

The County ordinance provides for procedures for take of problem wolves [that] cause imminent danger to humans, including children or other defenseless persons, domestic animals and/or livestock.

April 29, 2007

Catron County Commission

P.O. BOX 507

Reserve, New Mexico 87830

Ed Wehrheim, Chairman

Contact: Bill Aymar, Catron County Manager

[email protected] or 505-533-6423

 

[Liberty Belle]

Here's a story about the wolves my first post discussed. I feel sorry for the livestock producers in New Mexico!!! They will soon have the same problems those of us in the northern states have, if they don't already.

Two more Mexican gray wolves released into Gila

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Two endangered Mexican gray wolves have been released into a remote area of New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that the pair, a male and a female from the Durango Pack, had been transferred from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge wolf facility to a staging area at the edge of the wilderness.

They were released Tuesday.

The female is pregnant and was released prior to birthing to increase chances that the wolves will den in the area.

The Fish and Wildlife Service began releasing the wolves on the New Mexico-Arizona border in 1998 to re-establish the species in part of its historic range after the animals had been hunted near extinction in the early 1900s.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
April 26, 2007
http://kob.com/article/stories/S71096.shtml?cat=504

 

[Ranchy]

Thanks for helping to get the word out, Liberty Belle!

We have long thought the wolves are only one reason that my BIL, Kit Laney, lost his long-time fight with the government goonies.........they just wanted one less rancher to deal with.