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Possible wolf sighting in northern Arizona! >>UPDATE confirmed first in 70 years!!!<<<
Last edited Thu Oct 30, 2014, 08:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Update in reply below!
We wanted to share the news with you as soon as we heard it.
There have been multiple reports of what appears to be a gray wolf wearing a radio collar wandering along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. If the reports are confirmed, it would be the first gray wolf to visit the area in decades.
Agency officials are scrambling to collect any possible evidence of a wolf’s presence. The Grand Canyon creates an almost insurmountable barrier for migrating Mexican gray wolves from the south, so if this animal is a wolf, it had to come from the north. If confirmed to be a wolf, it likely traveled hundreds of miles from the Northern Rockies - a truly amazing journey.
As we learned three years ago with OR-7’s historic visits from Oregon to California, young wolves will travel great distances in search of territory and a mate. And the country around the North Rim is ideal wolf habitat. If this does indeed turn out to be a Northern Rockies gray wolf, it is truly a moment to celebrate!
Regardless of what this sighting turns out to be, it is a reminder of a conservation goal that we all share and are working tirelessly to achieve: The free range of wolves down the entire length of the Rockies.
This potentially historic event further emphasizes the importance of keeping wolves federally protected under the Endangered Species Act.
We will keep you posted with the latest news as we learn it.
As always, thank you for all that you do.
Sincerely,
Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife
Jamie Rappaport Clark
President
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
Defenders of Wildlife can be contacted at:
1130 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
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For the first time in 70 years, a wolf has been spotted at the Grand Canyon. This incredible news comes just as politicians are gearing up to strip federal protections for most wolves in America, including this one in the Grand Canyon.
Your donation to the Predator Defense Fund can help save this wolf.
Although this wolf is protected for now by the Endangered Species Act, that won't last long if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has its way. The agency plans to strip protections by the end of the year, meaning this Grand Canyon wolf could be shot on sight. This could happen any day, but we're acting to stop it right now.
This wolf's journey to the North Rim, likely over hundreds of miles, is exactly what's needed for wolves to return to their native homes and establish new territories with new families. We know there are hundreds of thousands of miles of habitat where wolves could live if we only let them. That's why we're celebrating what's happened in the Grand Canyon and deeply concerned about the survival of the wolf in this photo.
We just ended wolf hunting in Wyoming, and we recently won protection in California when OR-7 became the first wolf in that state in nearly a century. And now he has a mate and pups. We know how to fight these battles and win. Help this happen again at the Grand Canyon with your support of the Predator Defense Fund.
No single animal could more clearly demonstrate why it's a terrible idea to strip federal protection from gray wolves -- yet across the West, bureaucrats and politicians are pushing this very agenda. While wolves are highly intelligent and social, they don't read border signs, and none of the states in the four corners, including Arizona, offer them a haven; indeed the Arizona Game and Fish Commission has called for an end to federal protections.
The Center for Biological Diversity is fighting to save and recover wild wolves by fighting state-by-state for wolf protection. As wolves return to their historic range we will follow, bringing science, law and activism to bear. We know how to protect wolves. Having our roots in the Southwest, we can't wait to hear the howls ringing once more through our native canyons.
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I get to hear them often up here in the northern Rockies but they are hunted also.
I hope this one can find a mate. I have to admit that I was skeptical until I saw Jamie Rappaport Clark's name at the bottom of the text. She would know... she was the head of USFWS when the grays were returned to Yellowstone almost 20 years ago. I have met this woman and have great respect for her.
Thanks for posting!!
