AR-News: (US MT) Original pack's last wolf killed

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By MIKE STARK
Of The Gazette Staff 
Less than two weeks after her more famous sister died in Yellowstone National 
Park, the last surviving wolf from the 1995-96 reintroduction was killed 
Thursday in northwest Wyoming. 
Limping and riddled with mange, wolf No. 41 was shot by government agents 
after she had repeatedly killed young cattle in Sunlight Basin, north of Cody. 
"After that last (calf was killed) we decided, you know, that's it," Ed 
Bangs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf recovery coordinator said Monday. 
The death of No. 41, which came from a storied family of wolves, closes the 
first installment of perhaps the federal government's most closely watched 
wildlife reintroduction program. All of the 31 wolves brought to Yellowstone in 
1995 and 1996 have died. Their offspring and the wolf program are thriving, with 
about 170 wolves in the park. 




full story:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/17/build
/wyoming/30-lastwolf.inc 

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