December 13, 2022
Members of the Mexican gray wolf recovery team gather data from a wolf captured during an annual census near Alpine, Ariz. A coalition of groups argue in a petition submitted Dec. 8 to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that small statured Mexican gray wolves are often mistaken for coyotes and that protecting coyotes would in turn cutdown on wolf deaths. (Mark Davis/USFWS)
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Environmentalists want the U.S. government to list coyotes as endangered in parts of Arizona and New Mexico where the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America is found.
By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
December 13, 2022
