Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in neighboring states in recent months
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- Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in neighboring states in recent monthsBILLINGS, Mont.
- Park Superintendent Cam Sholly first raised concerns last September about wolves dying near the park border.
- “Allowances for trapping and especially baiting are a major concern, especially if these tactics lure wolves out of the park,” Yellowstone spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
- Minard questioned whether the 20 wolves killed so far this year after leaving Yellowstone should even be considered “park wolves."
- “Why aren’t they ‘Montana wolves’ that happened to go into the park?”Marc Cooke with the advocacy group Wolves of the Rockies predicted a backlash against Gianforte and the state for not doing more to shield wolves leaving Yellowstone.