Word: canada
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...dismay as the park's ecosystem--once well balanced between predator and prey--grew more and more bottom-heavy. Finally, in the 1970s, they decided to do something about it. Working through the then new Endangered Species Act, they proposed a plan under which wolves would be imported from Canada to reclaim their place in the ecosystem. Twenty years later, the plan was approved, and wolves were trucked from across the border--31 to Yellowstone and 35 to Idaho...
Good decision or bad, at the moment it's the law--and that's grim news for the wolves. The 66 animals shipped to Yellowstone and Idaho have multiplied to 165--90 in Yellowstone and 75 in Idaho. Shipping them back to Canada is not an option, since the territory they abandoned has been claimed by other wolves. Placement in zoos--where wolves aren't popular--is difficult. "The options," says Smith, "could come down to one thing: killing them...
...footed, but if the applause meter was any indication, he clearly won the testosterone title. Nevertheless, the judges ranked Eldredge higher, giving him his fifth National title. Both men will travel to Nagano. They will face Russia's Ilia Kulik, justly hailed as a Baryshnikov on ice, and Canada's Elvis Stojko, who may add a second quad jump to his long program at Nagano...
Personal: A member of the Ottawa Junior Senators for two seasons in high School...Played two games for Team Canada in December of 1994...Captained football and played rugby, basketball and soccer at Ashbury College...Father, Robert, was an Olympic bobsledder for Canada in 1968 and 1972...Selected by the Colorado Avalanche in the 1994 NHL entry draft...
Personal: A member of the Ottawa Junior Senators for two seasons in high school...Played two games for Team Canada in December of 1994...Captained football and played rugby, basketball and soccer at Ashbury College...Father, Robert, was an Olympic bobsledder for Canada in 1968 and 1972...Selected by the Colorado Avalanche in the 1994 NHL entry draft...