Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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1. Cade 1958 Canis lupus 8 July Unimet, Alaska Harold Griffin informed me today that he and Carl Boesk shot 43 wolves from a plane working out of Unimet, from 15 February to 15 April. The area covered was mainly the Colville valley from Unimet upstream, along the Killik and across the base of the mountains to the Dravoik River and also out onto the coastal plain fronting the northern foothills. About 20 of the animals came from the general locality of Kinnupa Lakes, where wolves were concentrated. In all 300 wolves were taken by 18 planes operating out of Unimet or Anaktuvuk during this period. The total area covered by these operations extended east and west from Liberator Lake to Schwader Lake and north from the Brooks Range to the Fish Camp in the Meade River country. About 200 of these animals were taken in the area bounded by the Colville River, Eltuvik River, and the Anaktuvuk River, again the area where most of the wolves were concentrated. In all this activity no one has yet seen evidence of a