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Even if the biologists decide that the animal is a wolf, a crucial question remains: Was it a lone sojourner and thus of no great importance, or a member of a group that might colonize the park? A pack could have established itself if at least one male and one female migrated from the north and then mated in Yellowstone...
...wolf pack has settled in Yellowstone, it could produce four to six pups annually, some of which could survive to disperse and colonize other parts of the park. "That's the way it happens," says Michael Hedrick, a wildlife biologist who monitored wolf packs on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. "First you get ambiguous sightings, then someone sees a family, and then the % floodgates open...
Smokers and storekeepers yesterday expressed a mixture of anger and disappointment at the passage of Question One, a statewide referendum which places a 25 cent per-pack tax on cigarettes...
...increase would be 25 cents for a regular pack of 20 cigarettes and 25 percent of the wholesale price of smokeless tobacco products...
Question One would raise the 26-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes to 51 cents and channel the added revenue into a newly-created Health Protection Fund. The estimated $130 million that would be collected would be used to expand current smoking prevention efforts...