Terry Johnson, Endangered Species Coordinator, will give a presentation on Mexican gray wolves to the AZ Game and Fish Commission. We need folks to attend this meeting and support our lobos.
The meeting is this Friday, February 5, at the Game and Fish Department Headquarters in Phoenix, 5000 W. Carefree Highway. You can watch the meeting and participate from via a video conference feed at any of the department’s regional offices in Pinetop, Flagstaff, Kingman, Yuma, Tucson and Mesa. If you view the meeting at a regional office, you will be able to submit a blue slip to present oral comment on the call for comment portions of the agenda, just as if you were attending the meeting in person. You can also view live webcasts of each regularly scheduled meeting held at the Phoenix headquarters at www.azgfd.gov/commissioncam.
You don’t need to be an accomplished public speaker-just telling the Commission that you support Mexican wolf recovery is enough--if you want to tell them about your connection to wolves and why this matters to you, that’s great too. It’s important to remind the Commissioners how much people in AZ support the wolves and that they hear from new people.
From the AZ Game and Fish Commission Agenda
19 A, Presenter: Terry B. Johnson, Endangered Species Coordinator.
Commission Briefing on the Department's Involvement in Mexican Wolf Reintroduction in Arizona and New Mexico and Related Mexican Wolf Recovery and Conservation Issues.
Since the mid-1980s, operating under policy guidance from the Commission, the Department has been engaged with a variety of state, federal, tribal, and local government agencies in planning and conducting Mexican wolf reintroduction in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico and has been participating in efforts to revise the 1982 federal Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan and the federal 1998 nonessential experimental population rule under which the Arizona-New Mexico reintroduction is occurring. In October 2008, the Department briefed the Commission in public session on all aspects of rangewide Mexican wolf conservation.
In that meeting, the Commission provided guidance to the Department on participation in Mexican wolf conservation through 2013 and requested a comprehensive update each year through 2013. Thus, on February 5, 2010, the Department will again brief the Commission on its progress toward current objectives for participation in Mexican wolf conservation, including reintroduction in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area of Arizona and New Mexico, on the adjacent Fort Apache Indian Reservation, and parallel but independent efforts by Mexico. The briefing will also identify and address significant Department and public concerns regarding Mexican wolf conservation, including rangewide reintroduction and recovery. The Commission may vote to reaffirm existing policy guidance and/or to provide new or additional policy guidance to the Department on any or all aspects of Mexican wolf conservation, including reintroduction and rangewide recovery.
