Popular Yellowstone wolf killed by hunter
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COOKE CITY, Montana — A wolf popular with photographers was killed recently shot and killed by a Montana hunter, Montana wildlife officials confirmed Thursday.
Officials say everything was legitimate about the way the wolf, known as 926F, was taken last Saturday near Cooke City, Montana, outside of Yellowstone National Park.
“It was a legal harvest,” Abby Nelson, a wolf management specialist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, told Jackson Hole News and Guide. “The circumstances are obviously a little bit harder for people to stomach, because that pack had showed signs of habituation.”
The wolf had been the alpha female of the Lamar Canyon Pack until ceding the role to her daughter recently. Her famous mother, known as “06,” was also a casualty of state-sanctioned wolf hunts outside Yellowstone’s boundaries.
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