Editing Red wolf (section)

===Reintroduced habitat===
Since 1987, red wolves have been released into northeastern North Carolina, where they roam 1.7&nbsp;million acres.<ref name="ref22">{{cite web |title=Current Red Wolf Facts |website=Red Wolf Recovery |url=http://www.fws.gov/redwolf/index.html |access-date=5 July 2011 |archive-date=15 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115202902/http://www.fws.gov/redwolf/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> These lands span five counties (Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington, and Beaufort) and include three national wildlife refuges, a U.S. Air Force bombing range, and private land.<ref name="ref22" /> The red wolf recovery program is unique for a large carnivore reintroduction in that more than half of the land used for reintroduction lies on private property. Approximately {{convert|680000|acre|km2}} are federal and state lands, and {{convert|1002000|acre|km2}} are private lands.

Beginning in 1991, red wolves were also released into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee.<ref name="ref19">{{cite web |publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |year=1997 |title=Endangered Red Wolves |url=http://library.fws.gov/Pubs4/endangered_red_wolves.pdf |pages=8–9}}</ref> However, due to exposure to environmental disease (parvovirus), parasites, and competition (with coyotes as well as intraspecific aggression), the red wolf was unable to successfully establish a wild population in the park. Low prey density was also a problem, forcing the wolves to leave the park boundaries in pursuit of food in lower elevations. In 1998, the FWS took away the remaining red wolves in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, relocating them to Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=National Park Service |url=http://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/mammals.htm |access-date=2014-08-06 |title=Mammals}}</ref> Other red wolves have been released on the coastal islands in Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina as part of the captive breeding management plan. [[St. Vincent Island, Florida|St. Vincent Island]] in Florida is currently the only active island propagation site.