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Article: Protecting predators: tracking the Rocky Mountain carnivores. (wolves, grizzly bears and mountain lions)(Cover Story)
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- Science News
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- November 30, 1996
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Little Red Riding Hood must be turning over in her grave. Many residents of the United States and Canada now go out of their way to protect wolves, those evil tricksters, even importing them into national parks where hunters had wiped them out.
Recent studies show that many North Americans-particularly people who don't live near the animals' habitats-support measures designed to encourage the long-term survival of wolves and other large predators, Stephen R. Kellert of Yale University and his colleagues assert.
Although grizzly bears still strike fear in the hearts of most people, the woods are full of hikers and campers who hope to catch a distant glimpse of ...