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Article: WOLF RESTORATION COULD BE HOWLING SUCCESS FOR OLYMPIC PENINSULA.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 17, 1996
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At the recent national wolf conference in New York, top wildlife biologists reviewed U.S. areas suitable for wolf reintroduction. High on their list was the Olympic Peninsula.
Wolves once thrived on the heavily forested Olympic Peninsula until settlers and, later, the federal and state governments wiped them out starting about 1890. All wolves were gone by about 1930, eight years before establishment of Olympic National Park.
Times have changed. Since the 1980s, wolves from British Columbia have been sighted with growing frequency in the North Cascades and elsewhere along Washington's northern tier. The public attitude toward the once-maligned predators ...