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Article: Rebounding wolf population is creating debate, new divisions; Public meetings have drawn a dialogue of heated rhetoric between those who want to thin the animal's numbers and others who urge continued protection.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1998
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Frank Bahr said timber wolves slipped into his front yard and killed his dog.
Greg Nicholson said wolves killed 40 wild deer that he had fed in the brutal winter of 1995-96, devouring only a chunk or two of meat from each animal.
Marvin Christensen said he saw more wolf tracks during the latest deer-hunting season than deer tracks.
One by one, hundreds of people in International Falls and other northern Minnesota cities stood at public meetings last week and warned that the wolf is at their door.
Minnesota's wolf population has rebounded dramatically in recent decades, those people said, arguing that it's now time to remove the feared ...