Gray wolves gaining ground up north (ME/NH/Quebec)

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060308wolf.shtml

ERROL, N.H. — Somewhere out there, a Canis lupus roams. The North Woods harbor moose and coyote, bobcat and lynx, and thousands of deer. And, quite likely, a handful of North America's great predator, the gray wolf.

"I saw him right there, standing broadside with that massive cranium," said Bob Lord, who jogged down this logging road last fall and came face to face with a wolf. "Oh, my God, what a beauty."

Extirpated by man more than a century ago in every corner of New England, the gray wolf (aka Canis lupus) seems on the verge of re-establishing a toehold in the 20 million-acre North Woods, a forest that extends from northern Maine to New Hampshire and Vermont and New York. Lone wolves appear to be wandering down from Quebec, reconnoitering these lands and disappearing again. No one knows when these wolves will find a mate.

But wildlife biologists say there is no reason that a wolf pack could not form here, perhaps very soon.

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...if you can't hunt it, they don't want it.

But I still would like to hear them howl some night up on the Allagash or St. John or at Baxter.

...or in Hooowwwland....

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and they would put a dent in the coyote population too...

...who will eat the wolves?

Keep it up and you'll have Siberian tigers prowling the streets of East Millinocket.

Talk about yer "animals"....

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