Education & Resources: Red Wolf Recovery Comments

Wildlife conservation advocates have been tracking the progress of the currently struggling red wolf recovery program in North Carolina for decades. Recently, the survival of the entire effort to restore a wild population of this endangered species has reached its own point of critical endangerment.

That raises the stakes for public input in next month’s “scoping” process to help shape the environmental study of the red wolf recovery program. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is taking public comments at two public meetings and through a written comment process. Questions for comment include the appropriate size of the recovery area, and management issues from how to deal with wolves that leave the area to how to deal with wolf/coyote hybridization.

The two in-person meetings will be June 6 in Swan Quarter and June 8 in Manteo. Written comments will be accepted via mail and email through July 24. Details can be found here and here.

For more background on the red wolf recovery controversy, see here and here.

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