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Article: Wildlife worker turns gun on wolves he helped nurture
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2002
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Wildlife worker turns gun on wolves he helped nurture
Officials unable to stop marauding pack from killing livestock
By ELIZABETH SHOGREN Los Angeles Times
Sunday, July 21, 2002
Stanley, Idaho -- At every stage of the seven-year federal effort
to reintroduce the gray wolf to the northern Rockies, Carter Niemeyer
has been there.
He trapped wolves in Canada and brought them south to their new
homes. When one pack was getting into trouble with ranchers, he
camped in the open with them, listening to them howl all night before
transporting several farther from the temptations of livestock. When
ranchers wrongly accused them of killing lambs or calves, he argued
their cases and exonerated many.
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