Not just a mascot: The real owls of FAU are underdogs too. USFWS remains under court order to release more red wolves into the wild. Fish and Wildlife Service began capturing the last red wolves in aremnant population along the Gulf Coast of eastern Texas and western Louisiana. At that February meeting, USFWS officials outlined their plans to release at least nine adult wolves into the wild this spring, including a family group and several breeding pairs. Download it here. By 2010, approximately 130 wild red wolves roamed 1.7 million acres of public and private land in northeastern North Carolina.