September 2014

The red wolf (Canis rufus) is one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. Once ranging from Texas to Florida to Pennsylvania, it was relegated to a remnant population in coastal eastern Texas and western Louisiana. In the middle of the last century, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the fragmented population was threatened with loss due to hybridization with coyotes. The remaining red wolves were captured and brought into captivity ? rendering them extinct in the wild. In the early 1980s, efforts were made to restore populations of red wolves in...

There is a lot of momentum building for collaborative conservation of large landscapes. The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Network will release their strategic plan next month and is making significant progress in bringing together partners, establishing shared conservation goals, and providing managers with landscape-scale tools to help them be more effective. The U.S. Department of the Interior is embracing resiliency and adaptation planning for a changing America at unprecedented scales. All of this and much more will be featured at the National Workshop for Large Landscape...