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Montana wildlife managers investigate wolf spotting report | Montana News | billingsgazette.com

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Another example of people falsely crying wolf! THREE FORKS— Montana wildlife managers are investigating reports of a wolf in the Three Forks area in the southwest part of the state. The superintendent of Three Forks schools says a parent called and reported to have seen a wolf. The school then posted a warning on its Facebook page. FWP spokeswoman Andrea …

Idaho, Montana wolf math doesn’t add up | Idaho Statesman

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Once a species is removed from the endangered species list, as the northern Rockies gray wolf was back in 2011, obtaining accurate annual population estimates is a critical component of the ensuing 5-year monitoring process put in place under the Endangered Species Act. In Idaho and Montana, for a variety of important reasons, the wolf population estimates compiled by state …

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Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies | Cristina Eisenberg

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Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the human population. Parenting our daughters here required learning new life skills–such as wildlife tracking. Before I could send our kids out to play, I’d go tracking in our yard and woods to see who’d been around. If …