Photos: Endangered gray wolves

A female Mexican gray wolf runs around in a holding pen at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico in 2009. This animal is distinguished by burn scars to its ears, which were sustained when a wildfire nearly overran its pen at another holding site.

A female Mexican gray wolf runs around in a holding pen at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico in 2009. This animal is distinguished by burn scars to its ears, which were sustained when a wildfire nearly overran its pen at another holding site.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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The California Fish and Game Commission voted to extend endangered species protections to gray wolves, a species that’s making a comeback.