Sentences with phrase «range wolf recovery»

In particular, it allowed FWS to release captive wolves only into a small zone within Arizona's Blue Range of mountains; the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area covered just 16 % of the approximately 90,000 - hectare region.

It expands the territory of the wolves fourfold from 18,679 square kilometers (the size of the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in the 1998 regulations) to 398,477 square kilometers.

Not exact matches

The new rule also removes the stipulation that only captive - raised wolves can be released into the primary recovery zone of the Blue Range.

The Center requested that the policy be applied not just in the Apache National Forest portion of the Blue Wolf Range Recovery Area, but also on all lands governed by the Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest's Revised Forest Plan.

January 2005 — The Center participated in a successful coalition lawsuit overturning a Service wolf reclassification rule that downlisted wolves to threatened, divided gray wolves into distinct population segments, and precipitated a recovery - planning process that would have established Mexican gray wolves outside their historic range instead of where they evolved.