New in the Press: Wolf recovery effort leader steps down

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—The director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mexican wolf recovery effort in Arizona and New Mexico is stepping down because of family concerns.

Bud Fazio has accepted a new position in the agency’s Albuquerque office, where he will work with a fish restoration group.

Fazio wasn’t available for comment Friday but agency spokesman Tom Buckley says Fazio needed more regular hours because of a family situation involving an ill relative.

Buckley says Fish and Wildlife Service officials hope to fill the director’s job as soon as possible.

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Click here to read the full article, published in the Las Cruces Sun-News on November 19, 2010. 

Please submit a letter to the editor urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to move forward immediately with urgently needed changes to improve the Mexican recovery program, including releasing more wolves into the wild and creating a new Mexican gray wolf Recovery Plan: letters@lcsun-news.com.