Yellowstone Wolves: Ensnared Again in Controversy

Three years ago, thirty grey wolves from Canada were released in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Many people celebrated the animals’ return into country where sixty years earlier the packs had been eradicated to protect grazing livestock. But some groups, including the Montana Farm Bureau, objected to the recovery effort. And then, a federal judge ruled that the reintroduction programs violated the endangered species act. These wolves and their offspring, he said, need to be removed. It’s one thing for a judge to order something to be done, it’s another to make it so. Jane Fritz reports on the debate over the fate of the wolves of Yellowstone.