Word: teton
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...wolves. Then on Sept. 30, a hunter's smoking gun left the most compelling evidence thus far: the body of a gray-black 42-kg (92-lb.) male that was shot while supposedly traveling with a group of three or four animals just south of the park in the Teton Wilderness Area. The first scientists on the scene said it looked like a wolf, but U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service experts are putting the remains through a long and complicated series of tests to determine if the animal is a wolf-dog hybrid and whether it spent time in captivity...
That possibility is what makes landowners edgy. Says Clifford Hansen, a former Wyoming Governor and Senator whose family grazes cattle in Grand Teton National Park: "I'm old enough to remember when ranchers paid a $150 bounty on the wolf, and in those times they would not pay that kind of money to counter a trivial threat...