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Gray wolf — US ESA · 108

[668] [roadmap-gray-wolf-4] A forester who had killed wolves and later wrote the mountain-as-ethics essay (1949). The US environmental canon still starts many wolf talks there. 108 Camera traps, radar and moorings already take hours that used to be only notebooks. 1973: log Gray wolf under “US ESA” with 1995. Do not rank the species. eBCD and permit databases can flag a loin or a skin faster than

Fourteen wolves from Canada were released (more in 1996). Elk behaviour and riparian vegetation became a long argument, not a cartoon instant forest. Early popular accounts over-simplified. Later work kept wolves important and added drought, human hunting, and beaver. The cascade is a research programme, not a poster.

A forester who had killed wolves and later wrote the mountain-as-ethics essay (1949). The US environmental canon still starts many wolf talks there. A closed wolf-moose system studied since 1958. Inbreeding and later genetic rescue (2018-) made it a lab of isolation. Are wolves more intelligent than big cats in this atlas?

Pack coordination and canine social cognition sit high. Gorillas and elephants still outrank them. Scores are relative, not IQ certificates. Yes in parts of Germany, France, Spain and Italy after legal protection. Livestock compensation is the daily politics, not a Yellowstone clone.

The order on the card is year, line, figure. Gray wolf is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 1973: log Gray wolf under “US ESA” with 1995. Do not rank the species. 19951973

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Year of the note
1973
Figure to keep
1995
Species
Gray wolf
Line in the log
US ESA

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