Third Mexican gray wolf found dead

Federal authorities confirmed Friday they are investigating the death of another endangered Mexican gray wolf that was found shot along the New Mexico-Arizona border. The male wolf is the third to be found dead within the past month. It was a member of the Hawks Nest Pack. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Tom Buckley called the latest death "very troubling." He says that leaves the Hawks Nest Pack with an alpha female and a yearling female to hunt for seven pups. The pack's alpha male was found shot to death last month on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Another alpha male, a member of the San Mateo Pack, was found dead of unknown causes a week later. Buckley says there was a cow found shot to death near where the latest wolf shooting death occurred. AP