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People around Yellowstone National Park have been agitated by some strange sights lately, and not just the usual glimpses of Elvis and UFOs. The new apparition is the wolf, the magnificent predator that disappeared from the American West more than 60 years ago -- killed off by relentless bounty hunters and government agents. Over the past decade, a few wolves have moved from Canada back into northern Montana and Idaho, but most experts thought it would take many years before they spread out and found ways to cross interstate highways and hostile ranchland to reach Yellowstone...
...first credible claim that the wolf had arrived in the park came in August, when a filmmaker recorded a large wolflike animal feasting on a bison carcass in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley. Not all biologists were convinced, since the animal appeared to have some doglike features. But more and more sightings took place. Rangers and visitors reported seeing paw prints and even groups of 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...
...Access to Northpoint is limited," said Councillor Alice K. Wolf. "It does not seem very likely," Another factor Cooper and Lybrand considered important was access...
...started [Wolf Vision] because most people don't know much about them... They just know about them from fairy tales," Weber said...
...Truslow '94, one of Wolf Visions' Harvard contacts, said he first became interested in saving wolves when he attended a similar presentation at Sever Hall two years...