Gray Wolves Ravage Starving Livestock on Reservation
As winter conditions persist, starving animals on the reservation are falling prey to gray wolves in large numbers.
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As if to add greater havoc among the herds of the range, gray wolves are said to have made their appearance on the reservation and the already half-famished horses and cattle are being killed by them in great numbers. It is estimated by persons who have been on the reservation that 20 per cent of the stock on the reservation, from opposite the Spokane river to the boundary line, are already dead.
“As if to add greater havoc among the herds of the range, gray wolves are said to have made their appearance.”
This reflects the brutal intersection of harsh environmental conditions and the economic realities of frontier ranching, where the survival of livestock was a matter of total financial loss for families.
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