"Wolves have been pushed around,'' says Biologist C. Gordon Fredine of the National Park Service. "People resent them."
Wolves resent people, too, occasionally eating them down to their boots. Result: U.S. wolves have been all but exterminated by resentful U.S. people. But Biologist Fredine reports that a study being conducted on Lake Superior's Isle Royale by the Park Service and Purdue University shows that wolves serve a useful purpose in the balance of nature.
Isle Royale, a national park, is 45 miles long and 20 miles from the Ontario shore. Originally it was covered with forest. Moose arrived about 1900, probably crossing from...
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