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1. Kill All The Goddamn Wolves And The People Who Brought Them

Published June 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM MDT
Mike Phillips, Jim Evanoff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Director Mollie Beattie, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Mike Finley and U.S. Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt carry the first crate with a wolf in it to the Crystal Bench Pen in Yellowstone National Park in January 1995.
Yellowstone National Park
Mike Phillips, Jim Evanoff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Director Mollie Beattie, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Mike Finley and U.S. Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt carry the first crate with a wolf in it to the Crystal Bench Pen in Yellowstone National Park in January 1995.

Heath and Clark take listeners back 30 years to get the history of wolf reintroduction from the people who put the predators back on the Western landscape. It’s a wild story of gunshots, death threats, frostbite and close encounters with canis lupis.

A transcript of this episode is available.

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