You could count the number of people who wanted the wolf there on one hand. Even so, several area residents have told me, quietly, that they like having wolves at their doors. Across the divide In neighboring, deeply conservative Catron County, N.M., where Blue River wolves are expected to migrate one day , opinion on reintroduction is also sharply divided. I'm all for reintroduction, which makes me a little bit of an oddball here in Catron County. Even so, we're in a conservative country, and we always have to remember that.
Local environmentalists do remember.
And I bet 30 percent of the people here would say they're in favor of reintroducing the wolf. I sure am. But you can get your house burned down for saying so, and so people don't. Naturally enough, he prefers to remain anonymous. The idea that local people are uniformly opposed to the reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf, while only city people are for it, as some opponents of the federal government's program maintain, is not quite correct.