New Mexico Wolves Prefer Deeded Land Ranches

I have been kind of sitting on the following letters because these are two of my nearest neighbors and it is hard to know what to do with them. It seems like all my neighbors have wolves these days and all of them have their own individual plan for dealing with the politics of wolves. Generally most of them usually realize sooner or later that no matter how nice they are to the wolf managers, they don’t ever see the end of the wolves. But still, I have to acquiesce when someone asks me to just lay low on their problem and I did for a while but it is time to point out some of the issues. Things haven’t changed much, there are still a lot of wolves in our area, the lower half of the Aspen horse killer pack has moved north to the Slash Adobe ranches and are in the same area as the saddle and Durango packs, Durango is homing in on a private residence on the ranch regularly and is badly habituated to people and residences one ranch house reports wolf howls for the past three nights near the home. The cowboys in this area ride every day and see wolves every single day in livestock pastures sometimes as close as 50 feet away. The wolves on the Diamond land, two of which are also Aspen horse killers, are still denning and all 4 collared packs are using deeded land way out of the wilderness. All four have bad livestock kill records....

Laura also posts the letters to G&F