Wolf recovery advocates, critics howl at New Mexico Game Commission meeting
From Santa Fe New Mexican:
“Wolves are a part of our world, and always have been.”
Mark Mattaini was one of several people who turned up at a Friday meeting of the New Mexico Game Commission in Las Cruces to talk about Mexican gray wolf management. The board member of New Mexico Backcountry Hunters and Anglers said the organization doesn’t have a stance on Mexican wolf management — except to ensure that “we all work this out.
“We’re the newcomers here. We’re the infants,” Mattaini said. “Wolves … are important to the health of ecosystems and the balance of predator and prey populations. Maintaining this is our collective responsibility; we all, together, need to make this work.”
There were some common threads at the listening session held by the Game Commission, which drew conservationists, wolf aficionados and livestock owners. But there were also points of conflict.
