Once-Hated Gray Wolf Thrives in the U.S. Rockies
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As the gray wolf hovered on the brink of  extinction a decade ago, U.S. officials embarked on a  controversial plan to open the vast refuge of Yellowstone  National Park to the pack-based predators in the hopes of  rebuilding the species.
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Four endangered Mexican gray wolves born at the Mexico City zoo in early May ventured out of their lair Tuesday, charming photographers and passers-by.
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Officials in three states have said they will to allow hunting&#8212;which could reduce wolf numbers back to dire levels&#8212;if the creatures lose their protected status.
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The gray wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes to an end early this year.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jan. 30--TWIN FALLS -- The Endangered Species Act's list of vulnerable plants and animals soon will become one species shorter when wolves are pulled from the register in about a month.
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It's "Animal Planet" in the presidential advertising wars. In heavily symbolic television spots, President Bush's campaign uses prowling wolves to suggest that the country under Sen. John Kerry would be vulnerable to terrorists. The Democratic Party claims the Republican incumbent is a head-in-the-sand ostrich while his opponent is as strong as an eagle.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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Wolves are removed from the endangered species list in three US states, paving the way for hunting.
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars.
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Scientists studying the broader effects of wolf reintroduction said a growing body of evidence suggests that killing off predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in the last century started a cascade of effects that threw ecosystems out of balance.
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Aerial hunters have claimed the first wolf kills of the season as Alaska officials renew predator-control efforts to boost moose and caribou populations.
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Don't expect Matt Holliday and the Colorado Rockies to be intimidated by the Green Monster. Back in June, long before their historic surge to an unlikely NL pennant, the baby-faced Rockies roared into Fenway Park and took two of three from the Red Sox
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 8--None of my outdoor experiences has left a more vivid memory than watching four coyotes, who were unaware of my close proximity, as they attacked a frantic fawn mule deer.
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By AP Wire Service  CHEYENNE, Wyo.  -- Wolves will remain protected for now in Wyoming, where officials want to manage the animals by killing some, even as they come off the endangered species list in five other states, federal officials said Friday.
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More than a million acres in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming have been affected by a pine bark beetle infestation, devastating forests and hunting alike.
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By JOHN MILLER  BOISE, Idaho - The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday his agency will start removing federal protections from gray wolves in Montana and Idaho by January, regardless of whether Wyoming has submitted an acceptable plan to manage its own wolves by then.