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The RETURN of the WOLVES

The year is 1995. At the edge of a wire enclosure on a wooded slope in Yellowstone National Park, a gray wolf raises her shaggy head and pricks up her ears. She lifts her muzzle to the sky, closes her golden eyes, and sings out a howl. Nearby, one of her new pack replies. AH-OOOOOOO! It’s a sound that hasn’t been heard in Yellowstone for 70 years. But now, the wolves are back.

The War on Wolves

Gray wolves once roamed throughout North America. That changed when European settlers pushed west in the 1800s. Farmers cut down forests and plowed prairies, removing the habitats where wolves and their prey lived. Ranchers killed wolves to

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