{"id":285802,"date":"2025-11-11T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285802\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:42:09","slug":"mexican-wolf-captured-outside-of-experimental-population-area-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/285802\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican wolf captured outside of experimental population area in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They returned the wolf to the Gila National Forest where there is an experimental population area.<\/p>\n<p>SANTA FE, N.M. \u2014 The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish captured a male Mexican wolf outside of the wolves\u2019 experimental population area in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Game and Fish officials found the wolf Friday just north of Gallina in Rio Arriba County. They returned the wolf to the Gila National Forest. <\/p>\n<p>Gila National Forest is part of the experimental population area for Mexican wolves. The area is mostly south of I-40.<\/p>\n<p>However, Game and Fish officials say the wolf was first spotted outside of the area in July. Then, since late October, he has been making \u201csignificant movements\u201d to the north and has shown \u201cno signs of returning\u201d to the area. <\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials believe he\u2019s moving around to search for a mate. However, if he hadn\u2019t been moved, officials say he could\u2019ve been hurt by another animal or could\u2019ve bred with domestic dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They returned the wolf to the Gila National Forest where there is an experimental population area. SANTA FE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-285802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}