Today’s news of a 12% decline in the wild population of Mexican wolves is a big disappointment but, frankly, not a surprise. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its cooperating state and federal agencies stopped managing for the conservation of endangered lobos four years ago, and the population has declined in three of those [...]

Las Vegas Daily Optic
June 10, 2008
By Tom McDonald
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would set aside 17,638 acres of land about 40 miles east of Las Vegas as a wilderness area. The measure now goes to the Senate.
Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., authored the legislation, which passed the House unanimously as the [...]

Albuquerque Journal
Monday, July 7, 2008
By Raam Wong
Journal Staff Writer
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — The absence of the Sabinoso wildlands in eastern San Miguel County from most road maps is perhaps fitting given the forlornness of its hulking mesas and dry streambeds during these long, dusty days of summer.
It exists near where the high-desert plains along N.M. [...]