“a number of existing potholes around DC have been/will be filled up with Mosaic wolf art.”

1818 H Street, NW photo credit: #RelistWolves campaign

From an email:

“This visual campaign is a part of The #RelistWolves Campaign, an initiative to highlight the plight of the gray wolf in America and to support the relisting of wolves to the endangered species list.

Some background on the wolf issue:

In the last year alone, nearly 1,000 wolves have been hunted down in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region, AND there are only around 6,000 wolves in the contiguous U.S. left.

In February 2022, a federal judge ordered that the gray wolf must be relisted on the Endangered Species Act in much of the country- after being delisted by the Trump administration. However, despite this ruling’s publicity, it doesn’t protect wolves in Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming- the region where 80% of wolf hunts occur.

This fall, there will be a status review of wolves to assess if ALL wolves will be put back on the Endangered Species List (since the Trump administration removed them in 2020).”