From the daily archives: Saturday, April 12, 2008

Druids den near traditional den site

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I’m still at Yellowstone and there is interesting wolf news.

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The Druid Peak Pack, after using alternative dens the last two years, has returned to the area on Druid Peak to den where they did from 1997 to 2005. It is probably not the same dens, but basically in the dense area of conifers […]

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NYT: In the West, a Fierce Battle Over Wolves

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In the West, a Fierce Battle Over Wolves. By Kirk Johnson. New York Times.
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Most of the focus has been on Wyoming. So far 3 illegal killings of wolves in east central and eastern Idaho have been detected.

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WY Game and Fish . . ."People shouldn't be alarmed," but 13 are dead already

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WY Game and Fish . . .”People shouldn’t be alarmed,” but 13 are dead already [I rewrote the headline]. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune.

At the Chico Conference one of the best papers made it clear that the Wyoming plan’s cutoff of the migration route south by putting it in the wolf-are-vermin zone, […]

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