¶ … conservation of the Mexican gray wolf. It highlights the time line as well as the events in the course of the exercise. The paper outline steps taken by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the implementation of the recovery plan as well as the outcome. The Mexican Gray Wolf

The Mexican gray wolf had not been seen in the southwestern mountains of the United States for more than 30 years until their reintroduction (Desert USA). The reintroduction of this animal species gave them a second chance as a protection measure led by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Endangered Species Act (Cosmosmith).

The Mexican gray wolf is a rare and a small animal with genetically distinct features compared to other wolves in North America (Smith). This animal once dominated the vast southwestern part of the United States including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.Over the years, with the growth of human settlement, the wolves interfered with livestock and other human activities. The turn of the 20th century saw most of them eliminated from the United...

In 1973, the United States Congress passed the Endangered Species Act, which laid the foundation for the listing of the Mexican wolf in 1976 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife as an endangered species.
The governments of United States and Mexico engaged in a collaborative program aimed at capturing and breeding the wolves in an attempt to save them. This effort resulted in trapping several species in Mexico between 1977 and 1980. This program was meant to save the Mexican wolf from absolute extinction. In 1979, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife services established a recovery team to design a recovery plan and by 1982, approved the plan. This plan outlined maintenance activities as well as the re-establishment of 100 self-sustainable wolves in the wild. However the plan did not outline a definitive recovery goal because at that time, it was uncertain whether the reared wolves would be returned to the wild, therefore the recovery plan dispelled delisting of the wolves. Instead, the plan focused on stimulation of the process and recovery efforts.

Through the 1980's, the…