Rare and endangered creature visits New Mexico park for the first time in 91 years

 

A rare and endangered Mexican wolf visited the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico for the first time in 91 years, park officials said.

The female wolf named Asha, formally identified as F2754, traveled north from the “Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area” and reached the nature preserve on Nov. 11, the National Park Service said in a Dec. 28 news release.

Asha wandered around the Jemez Mountains before returning to the park, making her the first Mexican wolf to visit the nature preserve since 1932, officials said...more