Historic photos: Yellowstone #wolves, 20 years later

In January of 1995, the U.S. Department of the Interior introduced gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park in an effort to establish a population in what was once the animal's native habitat.

Jim Peaco/Yellowstone National Park

Wolf #10 stands in the Rose Creek pen in 1995.
 

LuRay Parker/Yellowstone National Park

Wolf #13 is tranquilized at a processing center in Hinton, Alberta, Canada in January of 1995.
 

LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff

Canadian wolves arrive in a trailer through the Roosevelt Arch in Yellowstone National Park in January of 1995.
 

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

A truck carries wolves through the Roosevelt Arch into Yellowstone National Park in January, 1995.

 

Diane Papineau

A truck carries wolves through the Roosevelt Arch as school children look on in January, 1995.

Jim Peaco

People watch wolves through spotting scopes and binoculars at Lamar Valley in 1995.

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

Wolf crates are loaded onto a sled for transport into a pen in January of 1995.

 

Jim Peaco

A bobsled carries a wolf shipping container into the Crystal Beach pen in January of 1995.
 

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

Wildlife and park officials gather at a warming and staging tent during the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park in 1995.
 

Jim Peaco

A wolf pup is processed at the Rose Creek pen in 1995.

Jim Peaco/Yellowstone National Park

Mike Phillips, Jim Evanoff, Molly Beattie, Director of USFWS, Mike Finley, Yellowstone Superintendent and Bruce Babbitt, Secrerary of the Interior carry the first crate with wolf in it to the Crystal Bench pen, January 12, 1995.

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

A travel crate containing a wolf is opened in a pen in January of 1995.

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

Former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt holds a press conference discussing the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park in 1995.

Jim Peaco

Wolf #5 marks its scent in a pen, February 28, 1995

BOB ZELLAR/Gazette Staff

A wolf runs through a pen after being released from its travel crate in 1995.

Jim Peaco

Wolves run through the Crystal Bench pen in 1995.

Douglas Smith

Superintendent Mike Finley, Chelsea Clinton, President Bill Clinton & Chelsea's friend Rebecca Kolsky near Rose Creek wolf pen, August 25, 1995.

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