Ep. 14: Wolf West

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As a native family of American animals, for more than five
million years wolves of various kinds have been keystone
predators of western ecologies. Before humans arrived they shaped
the West more than any other mammal species. Numerous, nearly
tame, and admired by Native people, wolves continued this role
until the arrival of people from the Old World initiated a
continent-wide war against wolves. While wolf pelts became a
target of the western market hunt, into the early 20th century
most wolves were destroyed by bounty hunters and “wolfers,” who
trapped and poisoned hundreds of thousands of wolves at the
behest of livestock associations and state governments.

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