1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (424+ words) In early June 2026, five newborn Mexican wolf pups provided by captive programs associated with the Saving Animals From Extinction (SAFE) project were released into the wild by the Arizona Game and Fish Department – continuing a nearly 20-year-old program aimed at…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (199+ words) The Gila Herald The work will include periodic partial restricted access to day-use areas including Dry Canyon Boat Take Out, Old Safford Bridge Picnic Area, Spring Canyon, Serna Cabin, and West Entrance Overlook. None of the work will impact access…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (423+ words) SPRINGERVILLE– A large habitat restoration project will provide new and improved wetlands for the federally-protected Chiricahua leopard frogs in Arizona Game and Fish’s White Mountain Grasslands Wildlife Area – bringing much-needed surface water for native wildlife amid the ongoing drought. The…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (181+ words) SPINGERVILLE – Chiricahua leopard frogs will have a new place to call home this spring as a new project restores freshwater ponds in the White Mountains. The Arizona Game and Fish Department partnered with the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy (ARC) and…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (352+ words) PHOENIX — As the spring season brings an increase in newborn wildlife throughout the state, the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is advising the public to leave baby wildlife alone. Young wildlife are rarely abandoned. While it might be difficult…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (173+ words) Native plants are the perfect garden plants to help reduce water usage and encourage native pollinators, including monarchs on their migratory path. To help promote the monarchs, every purchase of $100 or more will receive a free rush milkweed. The show…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (557+ words) Arizona Game and Fish Department personnel released 19 endangered black-footed ferrets at three sites in northern Arizona, bolstering the wild population of one of America’s most imperiled mammal species. On the evening of March 10, department biologists and wildlife managers released 13 ferrets…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (236+ words) SUPERIOR – The U.S. Forest Service and Resolution Copper, a joint venture owned by Rio Tinto and BHP that represents one of the world’s most significant untapped copper deposits, have completed a Federal land exchange required to unlock the full potential…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (865+ words) Your trusted source for news of the Gila Valley and more. Can an old crow give the mighty Bald Eagle a headache? Never gave it much thought until I came across an article on eagles and crows simultaneously scavenging a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (267+ words) Your trusted source for news of the Gila Valley and more. SILVER CITY, N.M.— The Arizona and New Mexico wildlife agencies today jointly announced that the number of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest grew by 33 last year, to 319 in…...