Face-to-fang with an endangered Mexican wolf
Once on the brink of extinction, the Mexican wolf population is ‘booming’ in Arizona and New Mexico.
One of the most iconic and reviled predators in the United States is having a moment.
In December, 10 gray wolves were released into the mountains of Colorado as part of a voter-approved effort to reintroduce the animals to the state. And further south, in Arizona and New Mexico, the smaller subspecies of Mexican gray wolf is thriving, too.
“In the last four to five years, the population has really started to take off and basically boom,” said Brady McGee, the Mexican wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Not long ago, the Mexican gray wolf — or the — was on the brink of extinction. When it
