Fish and Wildlife Service

Description

This agreement is being implemented in order to sustain the current collaborative partnership that exists between the Service and TESF in the implementation of the Service’s Mexican Wolf Recovery Program (MWRP). The objective of this agreement is to have TESF Ladder Ranch contribute to the pre-release care and acclimation of Mexican wolves at their Ladder Ranch Wolf Management Facility for eventual release into the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area in Arizona and New Mexico, and with the ultimate goal of recovery of this subspecies of the endangered gray wolf in the southwestern United States. Missing from the landscape for more than 30 years, the public can now benefit from the Mexican wolf again being seen and heard in the southwestern United States. Like many species protected by the Endangered Species Act, the Mexican wolf is being restored to the wild to play its role in nature through an ambitious recovery program led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with significant contributions from several partners, including the Turner Endangered Species Fund.

Who can apply

• Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)

Contact

Maggie Dwire <br/>Asst Mexican Wolf Program Coordinator <br/>Phone 505-761-4783
maggie_dwire@fws.gov