BISBEE, Ariz. (KVOA) – Cochise County has adopted a resolution opposing the current implementation of the Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction program.<\/p>\n
The resolution passed unanimously with a 3-0 vote on Tuesday and calls for reforms to the program, mainly that ranchers be fully compensated when their livestock is killed by wolves.<\/p>\n
The board is also supporting the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Range Rider Program, which allows rangers to chase off wolves who are too close to cattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This past May, Cochise County residents and ranchers gathered for a meeting at City Hall in Bisbee to voice their concerns over the Mexican Gray Wolf population in the area and the impact they were having on livestock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the Mexican Gray Wolf used to be abundant in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. But it was nearly gone by the 1970’s. A reintroduction program was started in 1998.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BISBEE, Ariz. (KVOA) – Cochise County has adopted a resolution opposing the current implementation of the Mexican Gray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1017,26617,192,3729,3,79,452],"class_list":["post-32129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-arizona","tag-cochisecounty","tag-environment","tag-local","tag-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129","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=32129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}