Not out of the Woods yet: proposal changes wolf boundaries

By JARED MILLER
Star-Tribune capital bureau

Filed 12.15.06
CHEYENNE—Hoping to end the standoff over Wyoming's wolf management plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly suggested what it hopes is a compromise solution.

The plan would alter somewhat the boundaries of the wolf management area in northwest Wyoming, while allowing the state to maintain a controversial provision to manage wolves as predators in most of the state.

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Photo Captions & Credits: "A Yellowstone wolf walks past a thermal pond on Mary Bay, along the north shore of Yellowstone Lake." By Jim Laybourn, Star-Tribune correspondent.