Proposed rules to guide the federally led effort to reintroduce endangered wolves into the wild in the Southwest are open for public comment through May 31.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has suggested a one-year moratorium on releases of captive-raised wolves with now wild experience and limits on where depredating wolves can be relocated.
In addition, the wolf program’s interagency Adaptive Management Oversight Committee has proposed five new standard operating procedures addressing supplemental feeding, roadkill salvage, wolf control, helicopter capture and aerial monitoring flights.
The documents are available at www.azgfd.gov by clicking on the link under “What’s New” and then “View the document” or by calling (505) 346-2525.
Comments can be sent to mexwolf@azgfd.gov or Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project, c/o Arizona Game and Fish Department, Attention: Terry B. Johnson, 2221 West Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85023.