Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wolf also said the recent cuts in funding to special programs in the schools may "show itself in some of the statistics...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf, said a lack of self-esteem or a feeling of selfworth may lead to lower performance levels among minorities...
NATURE: A Wolf at Yellowstone's Door...
...Wolf advocates respond that before the turn of the century, the West had hundreds of thousands of wolves, which began killing livestock only after hunters slaughtered most of the bison, elk and other prey. Yellowstone's superintendent, Robert Barbee, points out that the situation is now dramatically different: the park and surrounding wilderness have more elk and deer than at any time since the white man went west. One conservation group, the Defenders of Wildlife, is so confident that wolves will stick to abundant wild game that it has unveiled a plan to compensate ranchers for losses to wolf attacks...
Renee Askins, executive director of the Wolf Fund advocacy group, sees the issue as a "rare opportunity for people to set right an environmental wrong." At the very least, finding a resolution that protects the wolves while easing fears of the nearby ranchers would be a great step toward showing how Americans can learn to manage their difficult and often ambivalent relationship with wild nature...