US HR642

Expresses House support for continued federal commitment to red wolf repopulation and recovery efforts in North Carolina and nationwide through partnerships between federal, state, local, educational, and nonprofit institutions

Recognizes red wolves as the most endangered canid species on the planet, unique to North America, and classified as endangered since 1967

Notes approximately 15 wild red wolves remain in eastern North Carolina's Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, the only wild population in the world, with 270 captive wolves at zoological parks across the country

Acknowledges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Red Wolf Recovery Program, established in 1973, which achieved the first-ever reintroduction of a carnivorous species declared extinct in the wild in 1987

Highlights wildlife corridors planned along Route 64 in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge to protect red wolves and improve motorist safety through underpasses in the recovery region