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Fieldwork indicates that everything is going as planned with the historic release of the Mexican wolves at the Ladder Ranch.
Wolves have visited the supplemental food caches that we established along with tubs of water with recent rains providing additional water. Both adults are out of the pen and restricting movements to the immediate area and at least two of the six pups have been...
Mike Phillips named as the 2021 recipient of The Wildlife Society’s Aldo Leopold Memorial Award.
The Aldo Leopold Memorial Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society. Given Mike’s deep connection to TESF over the last 24 years, the award is yet another example that the organization operates at the highest level of fish and wildlife conservation...
History has been made !!!
For the first time ever, Mexican wolves have been released on private land in the U.S., Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch, to advance recovery of the species. The ranch offers an abundance of secure and high quality habitat and easy access to the vast public wildlands of the...
Here are three short videos of the family of Mexican wolves scheduled for release on the Ladder Ranch.
The adults and five pups (three females and two males) are doing fine at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. They are scheduled to be moved to the Ladder on June 17 and released on July 1 marking the first time that Mexican wolves have been released on private...
Mother Mexican wolf with wolf pups. The pups are scheduled for release on the Ladder Ranch.
Mexican wolf father 693M with wolf pups.
The Bolson tortoise is home again.
Recently, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and partners including the Turtle Conservancy made restoration history by releasing captive-born Bolson Tortoises in the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of New Mexico. The species has not been free-ranging in the United States...
History is being made on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, with support from New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, has decided to release a family of Mexican wolves on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. This is historic since Mexican wolves have never been released on private land in the...
Graduate student Julia Joos, collaborates with TESF biologists Chris Wiese and Scott Hillard for a portion of her PhD work that involves bolson tortoises in New Mexico.
Ohio University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Julia Joos studies the thermal ecology of North American tortoises to gain a better understanding of how tortoises cope with hotter and drier environments caused by climate change. By...
Fieldwork indicates that everything is going as planned with the historic release of the Mexican wolves at the Ladder Ranch.
Wolves have visited the supplemental food caches that we established along with tubs of water with recent rains providing additional water. Both adults are out of the pen and restricting movements to the immediate area and at least two of the six pups have been...
Mike Phillips named as the 2021 recipient of The Wildlife Society’s Aldo Leopold Memorial Award.
The Aldo Leopold Memorial Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society. Given Mike’s deep connection to TESF over the last 24 years, the award is yet another example that the organization operates at the highest level of fish and wildlife conservation...
History has been made !!!
For the first time ever, Mexican wolves have been released on private land in the U.S., Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch, to advance recovery of the species. The ranch offers an abundance of secure and high quality habitat and easy access to the vast public wildlands of the...
Here are three short videos of the family of Mexican wolves scheduled for release on the Ladder Ranch.
The adults and five pups (three females and two males) are doing fine at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. They are scheduled to be moved to the Ladder on June 17 and released on July 1 marking the first time that Mexican wolves have been released on private...
Mother Mexican wolf with wolf pups. The pups are scheduled for release on the Ladder Ranch.
Mexican wolf father 693M with wolf pups.
The Bolson tortoise is home again.
Recently, the Turner Endangered Species Fund and partners including the Turtle Conservancy made restoration history by releasing captive-born Bolson Tortoises in the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of New Mexico. The species has not been free-ranging in the United States...
History is being made on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, with support from New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, has decided to release a family of Mexican wolves on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. This is historic since Mexican wolves have never been released on private land in the...
Graduate student Julia Joos, collaborates with TESF biologists Chris Wiese and Scott Hillard for a portion of her PhD work that involves bolson tortoises in New Mexico.
Ohio University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Julia Joos studies the thermal ecology of North American tortoises to gain a better understanding of how tortoises cope with hotter and drier environments caused by climate change. By...