Grazing project could burden endangered wolves, conservationists tell Ninth Circuit
From CourthouseNews.com:
PHOENIX [AZ] — Conservationists asked the Ninth Circuit Monday to order the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider the potential impacts of a large-scale grazing project on the continued recovery and survival of the Mexican gray wolf.
In a Phoenix courtroom Monday morning, the Western Watersheds Project told a three-judge panel that cattle grazing in the Greater Gila Bioregion — an area spanning the central portion of the Arizona-New Mexico border that is home to at least 26 sensitive species — could threaten the recovery of the endangered Mexican gray wolf, whose population has increased to more than 200 since dropping to just seven wolves in the 1980s.
