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You have permission to edit this article.AdvertisementReduced to just seven survivors and exterminated from the U.S. Southwest when placed on the Endangered Species List in 1976, Mexican gray wolves, or “lobos,” are lucky to be alive today.The Mexican gray wolf is the most endangered and genetically distinct subspecies of gray wolf in North America. Once numbering in the thousands and thriving throughout the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico, intensive federal predator control programs decimated the lobo population by the 1970s. Following their protection under the Endangered Species Act,...…You have permission to edit this article.AdvertisementReduced to just seven survivors and exterminated from the U.S. Southwest when placed on the Endangered Species List in 1976, Mexican gray wolves, or “lobos,” are lucky to be alive today.The Mexican gray wolf is the most endangered and genetically distinct subspecies of gray wolf in North America. Once numbering in the thousands and thriving throughout the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico, intensive federal predator control programs decimated the lobo population by the 1970s. Following their protection under the Endangered Species Act,...WW…
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