Biologists estimate just 25 wolves now roam park

January 25, 2004
Source: Calgary Sun
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By Bill Kaufmann

Forty years ago, wolves in Alberta were poisoned and hunted almost to extinction and vanished from Banff National Park. In the 1980s, they returned. But since then, their numbers have been dwindling — victims of an unforgiving ecosystem and human pressures.

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