shoots-straight
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Our club, Ravalli County Fish & Wildlife Ass., invited the guru of wolf and elk studies from the U of M to come to Hamilton last night and give a presentation of his findings for several studies his done on the interaction, and other reactions, that have taken place since the return of the wolf to Banff. Then looked at those studies to see how they apply to whats going on here. Then today we got some great news from Prof Mark Hebblewhite, he's going to gather the funding needed to conduct a major study on our elk herds here to see exactly what's going on with them. Should be able to start next fall. There's bad news, and there's good news I guess. I learned a lot last night. I was even WRONG on a couple of things. He did get asked about the giant evasive, non native wolf, that was transplanted here. He dropped that guy like a rock. He said the relocation effort took so long to get going that the wolf had virtually relocated himself from Alberta by then. Their not much evidence to support any of those claims. Some wolves had collars that ranged from Banff to Deerlodge, before the relocation effort Here's the article that's going to be in the Missoulian tomorrow.
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_9e116046-36f6-11df-bf2d-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_9e116046-36f6-11df-bf2d-001cc4c002e0.html