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Article: WOLVES ARE BACK, BUT NOT WITHOUT PROBLEMS.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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Byline: Becky Bohrer Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. -- It was a frigid January day a decade ago when the first gray wolves bolted out of crates and into the wilds of Idaho.
The event was cheered by environmentalists, who had once wondered if they would ever see wolves reintroduced into the Northern Rockies, and decried by ranchers and others who had hoped it would never happen.
Ten years later, passions still run deep. The wolves' incredible recovery and expansion in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have ensured that.
Ranchers worry about livestock being attacked. Hunting organizers worry the wolves are decimating elk herds and threatening ...