“Nonessential. Experimental. Of less worth than nonnative cattle. These are the terms by which a Mexican wolf lives. Is such a recovery plan perhaps more cruel to the canids than the extinction from which they were saved?
As one who has been moved by wolf song on the wind – a sound that is haunting, mournful, alive and keening – I want to see wolves restored to their historic range. I want to see atonement for the human-authored tragedy of wolf eradication. I want to populate the voids with wolves, replacing the heavy silence of their loss.
But I would rather find stillness in the land of the lobos if the alternative entails repeating history. I would rather not have wolves at all than subject new generations to past paradigms.”

—excerpted from “Mexican Wolves, Still Strangers in a Strange Land,” Writers on the Range, 23 Oct. 2010—