Mother Wolf Returned To Yellowstone; Pup Missing

Sun., Jan. 19, 1997

Associated Press

Federal wildlife officials tranquilized a female wolf and returned her to Yellowstone National Park, but could find no trace of a pup that had been reported to be with her.

The wolf, transplanted to Yellowstone from British Columbia last year as part of the federal wolf reintroduction program, will spend the next two months in a holding pen in Yellowstone’s Pelican Valley.

The female had been implicated in the killing of eight sheep last June and July.

Federal Animal Damage Control employees had been unable to catch the female, designated Wolf No. 27, last summer, but on Friday, with a fixed-wing plane, they located her several miles northwest of Dean. Animal Damage Control wolf specialist Carter Neimeyer darted her from a helicopter.

Joe Fontaine, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said if the female kills domestic livestock after she is released in two months, she will be killed.

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