Wolfpacks of North Cascades, though elusive, very divisive
Lookout Pack has disappeared, but now there are 4 other packs in state-
Argument over wolves gets heated though wolves are rarely seen and seem to have no perceptible effects-
Wolfpacks of North Cascades [Washington], though elusive, very divisive. By Gary Chittim. King 5 News

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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There were some intelligent arguments in there but of course the classic paranoia of the “evil government” planting wolves there.
I felt like they could have done a better job with this piece.
They sent a reporter over to the Methow for a day or so and they advertised the story in the evening before the piece ran on the 11PM news. If they went to that trouble, it wouldn’t have hurt to go just a little bit more in-depth.
Daniel,
Aren’t you expecting a bit too much. We all know the purpose of shallow TV journalism is just to fill the dead time between advertisements, which is the sole why network/local TV even exists anymore – profit.
Daniel Berg,
Actually that is a long story for television news. A large number of studies show that while people say they trust television news the most, those who watch TV news for most of their news know less than those who read the newspapers for their news.
FYI The lookout pack is in my back yard literally. I hear them and I have told a wildlife biologist about that too. There are also a huge pack of coyotes and two cougars too. And last year there was a cinnamon colored bear that chased the deer from my front yard. I am a wildlife artist and I am studying wolves for painting them and I am excited about the fact that they are in my back yard.
Sounds like you should go into the wildlife tourism business!