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Article: Gray wolves now freely hunted in Northern Rockies
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- April 28, 2008
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BILLINGS, Mont. - Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by
snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching
a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and shot the wolf
twice from 30 yards away.
Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies have been taken off the
endangered species list and are being hunted freely for the first
time since they were placed on that list three decades ago, and
nowhere is that hunting easier than Wyoming.
Most of the state with the exception of the Yellowstone National
Park area has been designated a "predator zone," where wolves can be
shot at will.
For Saunders, killing that wolf was a long-awaited chance to even
things out because he ...
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