NOTE: Clients that used BC-CNS-Wolf Suit, filed Sept. 3 under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following story.

PHOENIX – Due to an editing error, a Sept. 3 Cronkite News story on Arizona filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit environmental groups filed against the federal government over the Mexican gray wolf recovery program erroneously referred to a different lawsuit.

In the lawsuit filed in July, WildEarth Guardians, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and Friends of Animals allege that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has failed to determine whether the reintroduced wolves, considered an experimental population, are essential to the existence of the species in the wild, hasn’t relied on the best available science and information and, through revised regulations governing the recovery program, has failed to provide for the conservation of the wolf in terms of population allowed, geographic restrictions and circumstances under which killing wolves is allowed.

The lawsuit contends that federal officials have failed to abide by environmental and administrative laws in developing the revised regulations.

The story also misspelled the last name of Mike Rabe, Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program chief at the Arizona Game and Fish Department.