The Catron County Board of County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution to declare a “state of emergency” in Catron Country due to the presence and perceived impacts of endangered Mexican gray wolves. They plan to follow this up with a request to Governor Lujan Grisham. They are implementing a misinformation campaign to drum up fears of human safety and exaggerate claims of livestock losses due to wolves.

Their initiative calls for defunding the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and prematurely delisting the Mexican gray wolf, and with that, a return to heavy-handed lethal control to reduce the number of wolves in the county. This is a major threat to Mexican wolf conservation and would set back decades of progress to recover this rare native species.

All New Mexicans who care about wolves and wild nature must speak up against this.

Ask Governor Lujan Grisham not to sign the Catron County disaster declaration. The Governor should support continued funding and legal protections for Mexican gray wolves, the rarest gray wolf subspecies in North America. Save disaster recovery funding for real disasters, not myths and misinformation.