In late December, near the town of Beaver, in southwestern Utah, a hunter took aim at a big canine . Then he pulled the trigger, killing it.
The problem is that the animal in the hunter’s crosshairs turned out to be a federally-protected gray wolf. In the days following, speculation swirled that the 3-year-old female was none other than Echo (named by schoolchildren), who appeared on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in October – the first gray wolf sighted there in over 70 years.
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