One Wolf Pack Roaming Far Outside Park

Sun., April 23, 1995

Associated Press

One of the packs of Canadian wolves transplanted to Yellowstone National Park has roamed far outside the park into the Custer National Forest.

Radio collars on the five wolves showed airborne wildlife biologists on Thursday that they were in the Custer National Forest 50 to 60 miles northeast of where they were released. That put them southeast of Red Lodge, Mont., and within 10 miles of the eastern edge of the vast forestlands around Yellowstone.

The pack has roamed much farther than the other two packs that formed from the 14 Canadian wolves that were transplanted under a federal plan to restore wolves to Yellowstone. Biologists kept them in pens in the park’s Lamar Valley about nine weeks in hopes of breaking their tendency to return toward Canada.

One pair of wolves has not been located since April 13.

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