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Remind me again what province Idaho borders? Of all the arguments against wolves the one about some kind of Canadian super wolves seems to be the least accepted by science. The original transplants to Yellowstone came from BC. They had been making their way here on their own. We were seeing them before the introduction in YNP. There is no evidence to support claims that these wolves are any different from what was historically here.
There was a PILE of evidence including the general knowledge of multiple packs, it did not fit the needed narrative so any and all of the data and those apposed to the introduced wolves we're quickly done away with. I worked for an ID biologist at the time that predicted all that has happened. Ya, we'd see some larger wolves travel down through this area but they moved through, covering huge miles, the local native packs kept to very small areas and much smaller packs which wasn't working for the powers to be, they weren't aggressive enough nor breed fast enough, there were plenty of wolves here prior to the introduction!!
Where is it written? I've read a bunch of the literature on them and the reintroduction. I have never seen anything indicating that there were two subspecies. The way they're described in Lewis and Clark's journals sure sound exactly like what we're dealing with. I'm on your side but I don't think that there's ground to stand on with this part of the argument. They keep popping up all over the state in places extremely geographically separated, like White Sulphur Springs, Glasgow… It's not like their capability to move around is a recent development.
Everything has been buried deep, I know of a couple biologist that have personal papers but everything submitted is gone and those who don't tow the line get silenced. To those who were aware of and around the native wolves know there is a difference, the introduced wolves are nothing like the native ones that were here, 25 years ago we could tell the difference between a native and a northern wolf wandering through.
