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...clear just when the wolves in Yellowstone National Park sense that the helicopters are coming, but with their sharp eyes and keen hearing it's certain they notice them fast. Last week one of the choppers suddenly appeared, flying low over a meadow where 14 gray wolves were bedding down in the crusty snow. The wolves immediately scattered, but not so fast that a crew member in the helicopter wasn't able to take aim with a modified rifle and fire a net over one of them. As the large pup thrashed in the net, another man leaped...
...wolves that were netted last week are members of one of the most lovingly tended--and now hotly debated--animal populations in the world. Part of a group of 90 or so gray wolves, they are among the first of their species to tread the snows of Yellowstone in 65 years. Hunted almost out of existence in the western U.S., gray wolves have been making a triumphant comeback since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced two groups into the park's 2.2 million acres and into another large patch of wilderness in nearby Idaho. In the three years since...
...Keller and others, there's a way to fight back. In order to make the reintroduction project palatable to ranchers, advocates made a key concession. Though all gray wolves in the U.S. are officially listed as endangered, the transplanted wolves are considered an "experimental" population. It's an important distinction; while endangered wolves are protected under almost all circumstances, wolves in experimental populations enjoy protection only as long as they don't present a threat to livestock. Under this definition, the Yellowstone wolves live their lives in a state of permanent probation, safe only as long as they mind their...
...family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen has had less snow than normal this year, 24 inches of hard-packed base on mid-mountain. Members of the patrol had been warning the Kennedys off the game all week; the night before the accident, a senior official of the Aspen Skiing Co., which runs...
Birk, a starter on the 1997 Ivy League champion Crimson, replaced Phelan Pounds of USC on the Blue. Birk was the sixth Harvard player ever selected for the Blue-Gray Game, and the Crimson's first in 14 years...