Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, Second Revision

In response to a court-ordered remand of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, First Revision, we developed the Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, Second Revision. This version of the recovery plan includes additional site-specific management actions to address the threat of human-caused mortality, including illegal killing, that the previous version of the recovery plan did not include. The addition of these site-specific management actions is responsive to the District Court of Arizona’s October 14, 2021, ruling that the Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, First Revision, did not contain site-specific management actions to address the recognized threat of illegal killing of Mexican wolves or explain why it would be impracticable or unnecessary to do so. To incorporate the new recovery actions and their requisite time and cost estimates, we have updated the Implementation Schedule in Table 1 of this document; in addition, we provide the rationale for the newly added actions, as well as rationale for the revision of several existing recovery actions, in the subsection of the plan, Recovery Actions Added to the Implementation Schedule to Address Human-Caused Mortality.