U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The Southwestern population of endangered wild Mexican gray wolves has grown for the ninth consecutive year to at least 286.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says an endangered Mexican gray wolf was found dead west of Flagstaff last week.

An exceptionally restless female Mexican gray wolf nicknamed Asha will be kept in captivity with a potential mate through another breeding season in hopes of aiding the species' recovery.

An endangered Mexican gray wolf has been captured near Flagstaff. It was then released with a radio collar in order to help wildlife officials find a second wolf also known to be in the area.

A conservation group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging the agency hasn't acted on updating habitat policy for the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel in southern Arizona.

Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service over what they call “chronic unauthorized cattle grazing” in the Agua Fria National Monument.

Wildlife officials say nine endangered Mexican gray wolves are known to have died in the final quarter of last year.

Federal wildlife officials say they’ve captured an endangered Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico after it strayed outside of its recovery area.

Federal and state wildlife managers confirm that the endangered female Mexican gray wolf has traveled north of Interstate 40 and beyond a recovery zone that spans parts of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.

Arizona wildlife officials say nine endangered Mexican gray wolves were reported dead in the third quarter of this year.