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There are many animals in this world, but the one that is the most misunderstood, and the most majestic, this animal is the Wolf.

The Wolf was hunted to the brink of extinction back at the start of the 1900's when many farmers and hunters accused the Wolf of killing livestock, predating on game, and even  accused of killing people. Asinine isn't it?

   The wolf was once the most widely distributed land mammal in the northern hemisphere,   today it numbers fewer than two thousand in the contiguous United States.   Except in Minnesota, all wolves in the lower forty eight states are endangered.   In Canada and Alaska there is more reason for optimism; there may be seventy thousand gray wolves north of the forty ninth parallel.

WOLF: Wild Hunter of North America by Bruce Obee
   

    By the early nineteen hundreds people had trapped, poisoned, and shot the wolf almost to extinction in most parts of the United States.  While a federal plan to re-introduce the wolf to some of its former U. S. habitats has proven hugely successful, controversy swirls on the ground and in the courts.
    The big bad wolf.  The wolf at the door.  Throw him to the wolves.  These are classic characterizations.  Yet wildlife biologists insist that wolves are intelligent, loyal, and gregarious.  So which is it?  It depends on your point of view.
    After decades of darkness, the wolf is back, but under circumstances that are hardly natural.  For eons wolves survived because they were fierce competitors; today they live because we want them to.  People now wield the power to say:  Let there be wolves.

RETURN of THE GRAY WOLF:   by Douglas H. Chadwick