Bailey Dilgard News Today

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is celebrating this the 25th anniversary of the reintroduction of Mexican wolves to the U.S.

Bailey Dilgard has a dead porcupine in the bed of her truck. That’s one of the things I notice when I accompany her down a remote, rutted road in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests south of Vernon. The porcupine’s sharp quills, she explains, were no match for a car tire on State Route 260, the main east-west route through Eastern Arizona’s White Mountains. When she saw the roadkill, she picked it up to keep other animals from scavenging it and meeting the same fate.