Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?

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Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?

Wolf tracks in Yellowstone National Park on Jan. 7, 2018.

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Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?

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Wolf tracks in Yellowstone National Park on Jan. 7, 2018.Photo: Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service

Ryan Devereaux

Ryan Devereaux

July 20 2022, 2:00a.m.

Daylight was fading over the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park. It was late January, and a cold front had just moved in. Nearing the park’s boundary, the young wolf would have been unfazed by the plunging temperatures. He was not quite3 years old, with thick black fur and a GPS collar fitted around his neck. Standing among the rest of his pack, he was, up to that moment, a survivor.

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The Junction Butte pack photographed from a fixed-wing aircraft on March 21, 2019.

Photo: NPS/Dan Stahler

It had been a long and bloody winter for wolves living on the park’s northern border, and…

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2 thoughts on “Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?

  1. This is an incredibly disturbing read. I feel like I’m living in an insane asylum, and sadists are running it. The retired Yellowstone ranger has no credibility, and his peers who also kill wolves need to be identified and booted.

    • I don’t know what to say – very disturbing. No better than what happened in Wisconsin. The public can’t continue to be naive about what happens when there’s a delisting, and the Interior Dept. look the other way for political reasons. I honestly can’t believe that the Federal government is challenging their protection.

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