Does raising wild wolf pups in a pen work?
Raising pups with their mother in an enclosure (such as the Rose Creek female, no. 9 and her eight pups in 1995) was a great success, but so far bringing orphan pups to an enclosure to be put with unrelated wolves has not yet been very successful. There were ten Sawtooth pups. So far four are dead, two legally shot while killing sheep, one dead by an M44, one hit by an automobile, and all but two unaccounted for. In a similar situation, three orphaned Boulder Pack pups were placed in the Running Creek enclosure, which contained adult Idaho wolves B7M and B11F, the adults quickly killed two of them. Here is some additional information on this story. The Jackson Hole News reported that the predation took place in the Upper Green River Area in the foothills of the Gros Ventre Mountains/Wilderness rather than the Wind Rivers near Pinedale. They quoted the voluble Ed Bangs, US Fish and Wildlife Service’s head of wolf recovery, as saying, “In hindsight, it sounds like the idea sucked [bringi
