>>2254165The "middle of the pink area" is mostly in the New Mexico side. The White Mountains don't have nearly as many reintroduced wolves as the Gila area and the Blue Range. The Wallow fire displaced a lot of populations east towards NM.
If you didn't see a sign like this (taken a few miles from Quemado Lake), 999 times out of 1,000 you hear a canid(s), it will be a Coyote(s).