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MARCH 21, 2001

Researchers say it is coyotes, not elk, who have been hurt most by the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park.

Since wolf reintroduction in 1995, the coyote population has dropped about 50 percent. Wolves are now at the "top" of the canine pile in the park, researchers say, where the coyotes once were.

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Wolves become Yellowstone’s top dog (The Billings Gazette 3/21)

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