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Article: The call of the wild returns: resurgent gray wolf populations could mean new hunting opportunities.(Expeditions)
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- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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When European settlers first arrived in North America, they found a vast wilderness that was home to some 400,000 gray wolves. Over the next several hundred years, so many gray wolves were killed that, by the middle of the 20th century, they were on the brink of extinction. Now, thanks to strict protections under the Endangered Species Act during the past three decades, gray wolves have recovered to the point that they may soon become a huntable species once again.
The gray wolf's recovery has been dramatic, but it was still somewhat of a surprise when Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton announced last July that the gray wolf in the mid-western and eastern U.S. ...