{"id":495254,"date":"2026-02-28T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495254\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:10:12","slug":"opinion-a-wolf-in-los-angeles-county-shows-conservation-has-promise-and-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495254\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | A wolf in Los Angeles County shows conservation has promise and peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"645HQRMVVFFYRCVUJ6EFYCVNCQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jonathan Wood is vice president of law and policy at the Property and Environment Research Center.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6D7L4VNY2VC3FC5DTLF5KR4XPQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This month, a lone gray wolf <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2026-02-07\/wolf-in-los-angeles-county-documented\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was spotted<\/a> in Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century. That sighting would have been unimaginable a generation ago. In the mid-1990s, when endangered gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, the only state in the Lower 48 with a population greater than a few dozen was Minnesota. Today, more than 6,000 gray wolves roam 10 states \u2014 up from about 1,500. It\u2019s a spectacular success story but also a reminder that conservation works best when the federal government treats private landowners as partners, not obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Wood is vice president of law and policy at the Property and Environment Research Center. This month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,217596,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-495254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-partner-exclude","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495254","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=495254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}