{"id":289,"date":"2006-05-17T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=289"},"modified":"2006-05-17T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T03:20:08","slug":"comment-period-extended-for-mexican-gray-wolf-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Comment period extended for Mexican gray wolf plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobtv.com\/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&#038;id=25811&#038;cat=NMTOPSTORIES\">KOBTV.com &#8211; Comment period extended for Mexican gray wolf plan<\/a><br \/>\nBy: Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE (AP) &#8211; The public has more time to comment on a five-year review of an effort to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>The US Fish and Wildlife Service began releasing wolves into the wild along the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1998 to re-establish the species in part of its historic range.<\/p>\n<p>As of the end of 2005, there were an estimated 35 to 49 wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year review of the reintroduction program recommends expanding the range in which the animals are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The program is awaiting a response from the Fish and Wildlife Service, which has given the public another 14 days, until May 30th, to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Ranchers have objected to wolf reintroduction, while environmentalists argue that wolf reintroduction is hampered by people more than biological concerns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/ifw2es\/mexicanwolf\/\">The Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Home &#8211; USFWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountain-prairie.fws.gov\/wolf\/\">Gray Wolf homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOBTV.com &#8211; Comment period extended for Mexican gray wolf plan By: Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE (AP) &#8211; The public has more time to comment on a five-year review of an effort to reintroduce the endangered Mexican gray wolf in the Southwest. The US Fish and Wildlife Service began releasing wolves into the wild along the Arizona-New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comment period extended for Mexican gray wolf plan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}