THE MEXICAN GRAY WOLF

Quiet Canines Podcast · Sep 9, 2026 · 3m

Did you know that the Mexican gray wolf is an endangered species that was deliberately exterminated, rescued from extinction with a captive breeding program, and has only recently recovered to a few hundred animals.

And Trump just signed an executive order that might allow cattle ranchers to start killing them again.

By the late nineteenth century, cattle and sheep ranching had spread across the Southwest. Wolves killed some livestock, and ranchers lobbied government to treat them as enemies of settlement. Bounties were offered to private citizens who killed them.

The government sent…