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First wolves killed in Wyoming after species loses ESA protection Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com April 2, 2008 One of the wolves was well-known to researchers
Three wolves have been reported killed in Wyoming since Friday, though the number may climb higher since hunters have ten days to report a kill. According to an article in The Salt Lake Tribune one of the wolves had a tracking collar, and has been identified as 253M, an eight-year-old male who was tagged in Utah three years ago and then moved to Yellowstone National Park. The wolf was shot legally outside the park. In Wyoming's 'predator zone' a wolf can now be killed at any time for any reason, so long as the kill and its details are reported. No permit or license is required. Hunting season will begin in Idaho and Montana in the fall; in the meantime people can kill any wolf they deem bothersome, namely if it is harassing livestock or pets. Wolf trapping seasons are under consideration.
The wolf used to be one of the most common large predators in North America. Historical populations in the lower forty-eight have been estimated at 400,000. Currently, there are probably almost six-thousand wolves in the same area: the Great Lakes states include around 4,000, and the Rockies 1,500. Alaska's population, where the wolf is widely hunted, has been estimated between 6,000-11,000 wolves. The wolf is still protected in the Southwest, where its subspecies, the Mexican wolf, has been reintroduced into the wild in Arizona and New Mexico. Efforts there to establish a self-sufficient population has met with little success.
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