Many ranchers oppose the return to the wild of the Mexican gray wolf. There's a war over wild wolves in the American West. It pits traditional enemies against each other in a feud that has already claimed casualties. As Correspondent Jim Stewart reports, the conflict has become extremely heated. Since the program to reintroduce the Mexican gray wolf began, five wolves have been shot dead, and others have simply disappeared.
Locals blame the government for caving into the environmental movement.
Environmentalists, in turn, blame the government for the program's failures. It seemed simple enough. Eleven Mexican gray wolves, raised in captivity, would be released into the Arizona woods, multiply and live on their own for the first time in more than half a century. But the animals quickly got into trouble. But then we had four illegal killings in a very short period of time of about three months.