Yellowstone’s Mollie’s Pack is mostly back in the park, but not before spurring threats, bounties
A historic wolf pack whose bloodlines and territory trace to the 1995-96 reintroduction of wolves has mostly returned to its traditional Yellowstone National Park turf, increasing the odds that its naive-to-humans members will survive a Wyoming hunting season that starts today. Named after former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Mollie Beattie, who died of cancer during the […]
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