NEW PUPS FOR
TOKLAT & SANCTUARY WOLVES
News from The Alaska Wildlife Alliance
Aug. 30, 2000
After
last winter's trapping season, eight out of the ten world-famous Toklat
wolves returned to their den site in Denali National Park, Alaska.
We are pleased to bring you the good news of their successful litter
of five new pups, bringing their total to thirteen. Already, thousands
of visitors to Denali have seen them, including a recent incident
where the Toklats brought down a young bull moose. Over 7,000 visitors
had the chance to see this rare spectacle within 100 yards from the
road -- an opportunity found nowhere else in the world!
The six-member
Sanctuary wolf family experienced more difficult times this year,
losing three of their eight-month-old pups to a trapper -- less than
one mile outside the Park boundary. No one knows what has happened
to the remaining pup. The good news is that the two surviving adults
had four pups this past spring.
Thanks
to your help, the U.S. Department of Interior, Alaska's Governor Tony
Knowles, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the Denali Citizen's
Council all support the need to protect both of these wolf groups.
The Alaska Wildlife Alliance is pushing onward to get protection for
the Toklat and Sanctuary wolves on state lands where they go during
the winter in search of food. A proposal to achieve this will be reviewed
by Alaska's Board of Game this November.
For more
information, please visit our website
or email us. Thank you for your
continuing support of the Toklat and Sanctuary wolves in Denali National
Park!
Photo Credit:
Copywrite © 2000 Leo Keeler
The Alaska Wildlife
Alliance
P.O. Box 202022
Anchorage, AK 99520
(907) 277-0897
(907) 277-7423 Fax
