ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The rarest gray wolf subspecies in North America has seen its population nearly double over five years – but only to 114 wolves in New Mexico and 72 in Arizona, a wildlife survey shows. That’s 14% more than the previous year. The new data were entered into the court record in case between environmentalists, who favor continuing a 20-year project to reintroduce the Mexican gray wolf into the American Southwest, and ranchers, who see the wolf as a predatory threat to livestock.
