ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s most controversial carnivore has a new home in the heart of the state’s largest city.

Last weekend, human feet walked the grounds of the ABQ BioPark’s newly finished Mexican Wolf Conservation Facility for one of the last times before Mexican gray wolves arrive to fill the chain-link enclosures nestled between the Rio Grande and the residential backyards of Old Town Albuquerque.

The facility — five roughly 1-acre habitats situated not far from the BioPark's botanic garden grounds — was developed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and will be dedicated to conservation breeding, rehabilitation and pre-release care for the wolf, which is one of North America’s most endangered mammals.

While the BioPark has long exhibited wolves, the new habitats differ in one

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