Catron County

The federal government is touting a new plan that they say will cut "bureaucratic red tape” in order to support ranchers and lower consumer prices. At the same time, activists say it could also impact federal Mexican gray wolf populations.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized a highly unusual permit allowing a Republican Catron County Commissioner to kill a federally protected Mexican gray wolf.

It's been more than a month since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its own deadline to release a well-known endangered Mexican gray wolf and her family back into the wild after she was caught wandering well beyond the species’ recovery area twice in New Mexico.

Next month’s local elections are the first since the state required counties provide a minimum number of secured ballot drop boxes to ensure voters have…