The Detroit News

September 9, 2003 Tuesday Two dot Edition FRONT; Pg. 1A

261 lawsuits target Internet file-sharing Music industry sues song pirates

Tony Manolatos The organization did not file law- but it'll sober people up," said and Charles E. Ramirez suits in U.S. District Court in De- Gerald Ferrera, a law professor at troit or Ann Arbor. But additional Bentley College in Waltham, ROCHESTER HILLS -- After un- lawsuits, which industry analysts Mass., who teaches a course on successful trips to Best Buy and expect, could target people in cyberlaw. "Kids will always Harmony House, Mitch McCon- Michigan. (download music), and file- nell, an irreverent college sharing will always go on be- sophomore and aspiring busi- Apart from irking some music cause it's a sensible device to nessman, found the Dimmu Bor- fans and scaring others, the law- have." gir CD he was looking for at Media suits raise questions about pri- Play. vacy issues. The suits are a re- Earlier,the recording industry sult of subpoenas the recording association sued four college But he didn't buy it. industry sent to Internet service students -- including Joseph providers seeking to identify Nievelt of Michigan Techno- "It was $16.99, so I went home about 1,600 people the group logical University -- it ac- and downloaded it for free," believes engaged in illegal music- cused of making thousands of McConnell, 19, said Monday on sharing. songs available for illegal down- the campus of Oakland Univer- loading on campus networks. The sity as he grooved to the Swed- "People have a constitutionally group settled those cases for ish metal band on his personal protected right to the presump- $12,500 to $17,000 each. CD player. "For college kids, tion that the information on their that's a lot of money saved." home computers is lawful, that U.S. copyright laws allow for their participation in peer-to-peer damages of $750 to $150,000 for Money saved for McConnell and file-sharing is lawful and that they each song offered illegally on a millions like him is money lost for have a due process right if person's computer. the recording industry, which someone believes their activities says file-sharing is a violation of are unlawful," said Daniel Ballard, University policies copyright laws. It blames the a Sacramento, Calif.-based at- practice for a 31 percent drop in torney who is challenging one of The latest wave of lawsuits was compact disc music sales in the the subpoenas in court. timed to coincide with the return last three years. of college students to campus, to But Comcast, one of Metro De- ensure the suits would be dis- On Monday, the industry filed troit's largest high-speed Internet cussed widely. hundreds of lawsuits in a bold service providers, doesn't plan to attempt to prevent what has be- challenge the federal subpoenas. Michigan universities were not come a routine practice for many: among those subpoenaed, but sharing downloaded music over "At Comcast, our customers' most universities in the state the Internet. privacy comes first," the com- have implemented policies pany said in a statement Mon- against file-sharing, officials The suits, filed in federal courts day. "However, we will comply said. Some, including Central across the nation, accuse people with a subpoena in situations in Michigan and Western Michigan of illegally downloading and which we are legally bound and universities, started monitoring sharing songs online. The 261 when the request meets specific bandwidth usage, or how much lawsuits were filed by the Re- legal criteria." Internet traffic a student gener- cording Industry Association of ates. Most students across the America on behalf of its mem- Still, the overall impact of the state are now briefed during ori- bers, which include Universal lawsuits is expected to be mini- entation about policies and pen- Music Group, BMG, EMI, Sony mal. alties for sharing copyrighted Music and Warner Music. materials. "I don't think it will stop users from illegally downloading music,

CompetitivEdge 1-888-881-EDGE www.clipresearch.com Electronic Clipping At Ferris State University, offi- "People don't care," said Abbiss, cials installed software on cam- standing over a wall of CDs. "I like to have the product in my pus that blocks peer music- "They'll just get fined. Big deal. hand," said Lindvig, 30, an sharing, and CMU will shut down People walk in here and see a CD economist from Holly. "It's students' Internet connections if for $15.99, and they don't want to authentic." they are caught file-sharing. buy it because they can get it on the Internet for free. People walk Do's and don'ts for downloading "When we detect high bandwidth in here every day asking for jobs, usage, they get a warning," WMU and ... we are not hiring because What can you download? spokeswoman Cheryl Roland we are barely making it. If it said. "They get a more severe weren't for used CDs, I'd be out "If you hear a song on the radio, message if they find that it's of business." you shouldn't download it," happening again." Nashville music attorney Fred A contemptuous Dave Marsh, a Wilhelms said. "The legal situa- Fearing litigation, a handful of Pontiac-born rock scribe and tion very plainly is that unless students at Oakland University editor of the industry newsletter you have permission from the said they stopped downloading Rock and Rap Confidential, blis- copyright holder, you shouldn't months ago. tered the Recording Industry be downloading it or making it Association of America for Mon- available to others for uploading. Little deterrent day's action. If you go on a site like Kazaa and download a song by an artist you But the lawsuits won't stop eve- "Not a cent of what they recover recognize, you're infringing on ryone from burning music, which from these people will go to the the copyright." is as common among music lov- artist," Marsh said. "It will all go ers as disco music was in the either to the RIAA, the lawyers or What if a song is made available 1970s. the five big companies. Nothing on an artist's own Web site? will stop file-sharing except the "It's like holding a sucker in front abolition of computer networks, "That's completely legal," Wil- of a baby and telling him not to the abolition of the Internet." helms said. "In that case, it's the lick it," said freshman Jennell copyright holder. Janis Ian gives Grier, 17. "It won't stop me. Eve- Question of ethics away a lot of music on her Web rybody does it." site. She is probably the most Metro Detroiters are divided articulate and avid proponent of The popularity of downloading about the ethics of downloading free distribution of music on the music from the Internet is, in music via computer. Internet." part, what led Harmony House to close all but two of its 36 stores Cassie Noel, 17, of Hazel Park, If a person signs the RIAA's am- last year, company Vice Presi- doesn't download music from the nesty document, will that provide dent Lloyd Welch said. He doubts Internet. protection from all legal action in Monday's lawsuits will make a the future? difference. "I don't think it's right," said Noel, as she shopped for music at FYE Maybe. The Recording Industry "The Internet is not going to go store at Macomb Mall in Association of America doesn't in away," Welch said. "Some people Roseville. "You should buy the fact control every song copy- may think twice, but generally CD. I think these lawsuits will right, Wilhelms said. And be- there has to be a substantial make people download less." cause sound recordings weren't amount of people being prose- formally copyrighted before cuted and paying out before it Lana Gringer, 41, of Algonac, 1976, there may be no clear does anything at all." doesn't see a problem with owner of some copyrights. downloading -- as long as users Sue Abbiss, owner of Hot Hits in don't profit from it. "If you take the amnesty and are Roseville, agreed. Business has ever charged with copyright in- dropped off about 50 percent in "If it's for themselves and they fringement on any other grounds, recent years, and Abbiss has cut are not selling it, why not?" said for any other document, the RIAA staff from seven to two, she said. Gringer, a Web site business says they will cooperate and as- Shrinking business has forced owner. sist you," Wilhelms said. "But I Abbiss to get creative, adding don't know how they're supposed more used CDs, out-of-print re- Klaus Lindvig, shopping at Tower to keep track of you." cords, T-shirts and artists' mer- Records in Birmingham on Mon- chandise. day, was looking for music he -- Susan Whitall already has on his home computer.

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September 5, 2003, Friday, BC cycle

Upper Peninsula Briefs MARQUETTE, Mich.

Confusion has arisen over a vote by the Marquette County Board on whether to lease space in an Ishpeming building owned partly by one of its members.

The board had appeared to approved the lease Tuesday on a 6-2 vote. But after reviewing an audiotape of the meeting and checking with commissioners, the county clerk said the actual vote was 5-3, The Mining Journal reported Friday.

State law requires that any contract in which a board member has a personal interest must get two-thirds majority approval to take effect. The 5-3 margin fell short, mean- ing the lease was not approved, civil counsel Harley Andrews said in a letter to the board.

Vice Chairman Paul Arsenault of Ishpeming abstained because he is the managing partner of Pioneer Square, the building where the county was seeking space for district court operations.

Chairman Gerald Corkin said he still believed the vote had been 6-2. "I interpret the vote as I saw it in the meeting," he said.

MUNISING, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan State University Experiment Station in Chatham will display a new automated weather station Saturday during "farm and field day" activities.

The event is an open house beginning at 11 a.m., with food, demonstrations and other activities.

"We'd like the general public to come and pet some calves and see some cows and have lunch," station manager Paul Naasz said. "We'd like to get the public down on the farm and see what it's all about."

At 1 p.m., officials will dedicate a new Michigan Automated Weather Network weather station. It's already up and running at the Chatham station, only the second in the Upper Peninsula and one of 33 statewide.

"They're basically designed for farmers," Naasz said. "The main benefit is it downloads data to the Internet within the hour."

Farmers can use the data on air and soil temperatures, relative humidity, solar radia- tion, wind speed and direction, volumetric soil pressure, leaf wetness and precipitation to help make decisions about the crops they're growing.

The data from the weather station is available free online. Farmers can take the information and plug it into computer models.

CompetitivEdge 1-888-881-EDGE www.clipresearch.com Electronic Clipping "The computer models will predict certain (crop) disease outbreaks," Naasz said. "The sooner we can get after a potential outbreak, the better."

HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) - While there are more students on campus this fall at Michi- gan Tech University, total enrollment dropped slightly from last year.

According to preliminary data released Thursday, enrollment dipped 1.3 percent to 6,538 - due largely to a decline in the number of students in off-campus distance- learning programs.

An influx of 84 new graduate students and 54 new out-of-state undergraduates helped boost Tech's total on-campus enrollment to 6,078. That's a 2.25 percent increase from last year.

It's the largest on-campus population since 2000 when 6,082 enrolled.

Gary Neumann, executive director of enrollment management, said the increase is n o - ticeable. "It's important for a more vibrant student life and things of that nature," he told The Daily Mining Gazette.

Freshmen enrollment remained stable, dropping by one to 1,464.

The number of distance learning students fell from 603 to 460, a 24 percent decline. Officials said the reason probably was the ending of some one-time certificate programs with specific companies.

Meanwhile, enrollment at neighboring Finlandia University in Hancock jumped 6.6 percent this year, continuing a six-year trend that coincides with a school makeover.

Since 1998, enrollment has increased 54 percent - from 360 students to 549 - thanks largely to the university's creation of new four-year programs and an expanded athletic department, officials said.

President Robert Ubbelohde said Finlandia's goal is enrollment of 700 by 2005. "That's where we'd like to stay," he said.

HANCOCK, Mich. (AP) - Paul Rosemurgy's new Diamondback bicycle was no freebie. He earned it.

Paul, a 7-year-old who lives in Hancock, is one of 20 winners in this year's annual Read-to-Ride program.

The contest, now in its third year in the Upper Peninsula, gives children in Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties one chance at a new bike and helmet for each book they read over the summer. The drawing was held last month.

This year, about 500 children participated. They read more than 5,800 books.

The figures are an increase over last year, said Greta Erm, director of the Copper Coun- try Intermediate School District's Regional Educational Media Center.

"The kids seemed to be more excited," she told The Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton for a story Friday.

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"We got some high-quality bikes for a pretty good deal," said Mark Lambert, executive director at Good Will Farm in Houghton, a child-mentoring institution that co-sponsors the program.

The contest gave Paul incentive to read, said his mother, Susan Rosemurgy. "He worked very hard on reading for summer," she said.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) - For the second time in several weeks, city firefighters and MichCon crews were called to a natural gas line break near War Memorial Hospital.

No injuries or fires were reported Thursday, but firefighters and specialist repair crews from lower Michigan worked through the night to halt the leak and install a re - placement gas main.

An apparent result of a heavy equipment accident in street construction work, the break opened a large breach in a six-inch natural gas main serving the neighborhood.

Sault Fire Chief Ken Eagle told The Evening News that city firefighters were able to stem the screeching main break temporarily by stuffing an inflatable rescue device into the hole.

After several gas line breaks around the city this spring and summer, he said firefighters have become adept at plugging leaking gas lines with an inflatable air bag.

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September 4, 2003 Thursday

EPA Awards Michigan Environmental Education Grants

CHICAGO, Sept. 4

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 recently awarded $26,026 in grants to four Michigan organizations proposing innovative environmental education programs.

Receiving federal funds are Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit; Community Action Agency, Hillsdale; Michigan Technological University, Houghton; and Wildlife Unlimited, Holland. The recipients were among 20 organizations in Region 5 splitting $198,700 i n grant money this year. More than 100 proposals were received from groups in the Re- gion 5 states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

"The competition for educational grants is fierce, so congratulations go out to all the r e - cipients," said Region 5 Administrator Thomas V. Skinner. "EPA considers education critical to maintaining the progress we've seen in protecting our environment."

The grants are awarded yearly under the National Environmental Education Act, which was passed in 1990 to stimulate environmental education by supporting design, demon- stration and communication projects conceived by local organizations.

Note to correspondents: More details about each grant are available at http://www.epa.gov/region5/news http://www.usnewswire.com

CONTACT: Megan Gavin of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, 312- 353-5282

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September 3, 2003 Wednesday California: Obituaries; Pg. B07

County obits

Ventura 30 years. During his retirement in Bor- rego Springs, Guy worked as a volunteer Guy Greene geology naturalist for 10 years. Because of failing health, he moved to Ventura County. Guy Greene, 77, of Ventura passed away Friday, Aug. 29, 2003, after a one-year Guy is survived by his wife, Gloria illness. He had been a resident of Ventura Greene, and son Robert Greene. County for three and one-half years, coming from Borrego Springs, Calif. He was preceded in death by his son Wil- liam S. Greene. Mr. Greene was born Aug. 11, 1926, i n Grosse Pointe, Mich. After his honorable Mr. Greene has been entrusted to the care discharge from the U.S. Navy, he graduated of James A. Reardon Mortuary, 511 North from Michigan Tech with an engineering A St., Oxnard, CA 93030, (805) 483- degree. He worked in the aerospace indus- 2233. try as an aircraft engineer for more than

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September 1, 2003, Monday, FINAL EDITION METRO, Pg. 7

Obituaries

PETTYJOHN, Charles S. "Chuck", Jr., 6 4 , son, Charles Pettyjohn III of Largo; a twin of Largo, died Friday, August 29, 2003 at brother, Dr. Robert B. Pettyjohn of New Largo Medical Center. Born in East Chi- Port Richey; his mother, Margaret Petty- cago, Ind., he came here in 1987 from john of Clearwater; and four grandchil- Houston, Texas. He was President of ASAP dren. A gathering will be held Monday, Programs and Medi + Physicals, Inc. in September 1, 2003 from 4 p.m. until the Tampa. He graduated from Michigan memorial service at 6 p.m. at Anderson- Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree i n McQueen Funeral Home, Largo Chapel, 7 1 6 Electrical Engineering. He was a Presby- Seminole Blvd., Largo, Fla. Online guest- terian. He is survived by one daughter, book at www.andersonmcqueen.com. Heather McEnery of St. Petersburg; one

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August 31, 2003 Sunday FINAL; Pg. B1

TRAPPED by Doubts Approach To Reintroducing Wolves Into the Wild Is Under Attack

Tania Soussan wild until the service meets its Journal Staff Writer Measuring the reintroduction obligations. program's success so far is diffi- Two years have passed since cult. The debate reflects the complex- scientists recommended funda- ity of endangered species rein- mental changes to the Mexican How many wolves? troduction programs. Fish and wolf reintroduction program in the Wildlife Service biologists cannot Southwest. The goal was to have a total of 11 base their decisions solely on packs and 55 wolves in the wild what would be best for the So far, few of their major sugges- by the end of this year. There are wolves. By federal law, they also tions have been met. roughly 30 radio-collared wolves have to consider impacts on in the wild now. But biologists ranchers and other people in the Even now, as a five-year review believe there are many more area. of the reintroduction program is wolves out there because an at hand, controversy persists unknown number of juveniles and Fixing an imbalance over the unresolved recommen- pups do not have collars. dations made in the three-year Environmentalists believe the review. "There's no doubt we're moving current rules favor ranchers and toward recovery," said acting don't do enough to protect the The scientists said in 2001 that program manager Colleen Bu- wolves. the program should immediately chanan. "I'm very optimistic change its rules to allow the en- about the wolf program." Ranchers see it differently. dangered wolves to roam outside the government's recovery area Others have their doubts. "The way the rules are set up, boundaries. they are stacked against the Twenty-four conservation, animal livestock industry," said Howard They said ranchers should be protection, religious and commu- Hutchinson, executive director of required to take some responsi- nity groups have asked the gov- the Glenwood-based Coalition of bility for cattle carcasses that ernment to heed the warnings of Arizona/New Mexico Counties for could attract hungry wolves. the panel of scientists that re- Stable Economic Growth. They also said the wolf recovery viewed the program several plan should be revised by June years ago. "The only way the wolf recovery 2002 with clear goals for getting program will have any chance of wolves off the federal govern- The scientists said two years ago success at all is to have local ment's endangered species list. that the Fish and Wildlife Serv- buy-in from the people who live in ice's "control program" -- the way the area and have to deal with it," The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- it manages the wolves -- is en- he said. ice has not yet proposed any dangering individual animals and change to the boundary rule. It the entire species. Michael Robinson, a Pinos Altos has not made ranchers responsi- resident and representative of ble for carcasses. And the Meanwhile, ranchers and county the Center for Biological Diver- agency is just beginning work on government leaders are suing the sity, agreed that local community the updated recovery plan. Fish and Wildlife Service. They needs must be considered. But say the agency did not ade- he said the current balance is The Mexican wolf program aims quately consider the potential for tipped in favor of ranchers. to establish a population of 100 livestock depredation and wolves wild wolves in southwestern New hybridizing with other canines. "There's got to be some attempt Mexico and southeastern Ari- at coexistence, but that effort zona. The lobos were hunted to They have asked a federal judge hasn't been made," he said. the brink of extinction in the early to ban new wolf releases and 1900s. order all wolves removed from the

CompetitivEdge 1-888-881-EDGE www.clipresearch.com Electronic Clipping Buchanan said the scientists' "There's a trade-off between getting wolves off the endan- recommendations are being making rules that make sense for gered species list. weighed along with funding, other the biology and making rules that priorities and public input. are politically acceptable," The service is just now putting Vucetich added. together the team to rewrite the Dale Hall, Southwest regional plan, which is more than two dec- manager of the Fish and Wildlife Chuck Hayes, assistant chief of ades old and based on old sci- Service, said it has taken time for the New Mexico Game and Fish ence. him to understand the nuances of Department, said more people the wolf program since coming to are accepting the fact they will "The critical question is at what Albuquerque early last year. have to live with wolves. level does the population reach a self-sustainable mode," Hall said. He also said some of the issues "I think it's on track," he said of raised by the scientists should the program. "I don't think there's The current recovery plan does be addressed as the new recov- a wolf program that's going to go not set any criteria for getting the ery plan is written. But he said on without wrinkles." wolves off the endangered list, their recommendations are not so-called "delisting." Federal bi- off the table. An unseen line ologists often refer to the reintroduction program goal of 100 John Vucetich, a research assis- Current rules require the recap- wolves re-established in the wild tant professor at Michigan ture of wolves that cross over an as a recovery goal, but it is not Technological University invisible line marking the bound- an official benchmark. and one of the scientists who did ary of their recovery area. the three-year review of the wolf The number likely will be higher program, said other changes are The scientists said that doesn't once the new plan is written. overdue. make sense because wolves roam over large distances and "Anyone will say 100 of anything "It's disappointing that they limiting the recovery area need- is not a recovered population," haven't done much or anything, lessly excludes good habitat. Buchanan said. and it's not even clear why," he They said the policy is not con- said. sistent with other wolf reintroduc- Getting wolves off the endan- tion programs or with wildlife gered list will be good for every- Another of the reviewers, Mike management in general. one, Hall said. Phillips, the first lead scientist for wolf restoration in Yellowstone They also said ranchers should "We really don't have a choice," National Park, said he also be made responsible for live- he said. "We have to find a way. stands by the recommendations. stock carcasses that wolves can If the wolf stays not recovered, scavenge on, acquiring a taste then it's going to continue to be, "A comprehensive review today for domestic animals. in the agricultural community's would show many of those rec- mind, an onerous situation and, ommendations are still called Leaving carcasses on public land in the environmental community's for," he said. is irresponsible, Vucetich said. mind, an onerous situation."

The Arizona and New Mexico "We know that asking ranchers to Recovery or delisting would mean state game departments en- adopt a potentially more complex the wolves no longer face extinc- dorsed the scientists' recom- husbandry program could be a tion and would allow ranchers mendations as "scientifically royal pain in the ass," Phillips more flexibility in dealing with the valid." But they said that was said. But he said a change is predators. only part of the story. needed. Series of setbacks "Some of the recommendations In the federal government's do not adequately reflect social Northern Rockies wolf reintroduc- Environmentalists say the rein- and cultural issues," their report tion program, for example, troduction program rules are so stated. "There is no such thing as ranchers bear some responsibil- restrictive that the wild wolf 'pure science' in an endangered ity for removing livestock car- population is declining and the species reintroduction." casses from federal lands so species is not moving toward they do not attract wolves. recovery. Phillips agreed reintroduction programs must consider social Another change the scientists "We have a control program mas- factors. But he said he and the recommended was quickly up- querading as a recovery pro- other scientists were asked to dating the recovery plan for the gram," Robinson said. weigh a narrow set of questions. Mexican gray wolf -- the document that should set goals for He said there is a long list of ex- amples of how the Mexican

CompetitivEdge 1-888-881-EDGE www.clipresearch.com Electronic Clipping wolves have suffered because of chance the construction would purity. In September, the service recaptures and other measures have any long-lasting impact. euthanized seven pups born to a in Arizona and New Mexico: Mexican gray wolf after they were But in the end, the pups died. found to be wolf-dog hybrids. No * A Mule Pack female's foot was other hybrids have been con- injured by a mechanical trap in a Last week, the wolf program team firmed among the animals in the recapture effort; it later had to be set traps and started hazing a program, despite ongoing genetic amputated. When she was rere- group of wolves in an effort to testing. leased, she separated from her move them away from a public mate and now appears to be lost. lands grazing allotment even "The 'Mexican gray wolves' that though there were no confirmed were released into the wild by the * The government, for the first depredations. (Fish and Wildlife Service) are no time in decades, shot and killed a longer pure Mexican gray wolves, wild Mexican wolf in May after Robinson said the trapping effort if they ever were to begin with," she killed calves. Earlier, the could set a bad precedent for the suit states. "The released alpha female had been trapped other wolves, but Buchanan said wolves are apparently breeding from the wild and rereleased it is not a new tactic. with either coyotes or dogs." twice and had scavenged on livestock carcasses. Trapping and moving wolves can The livestock industry has pro- be hard on the animals, but it is a posed changes to the program, * Three pups from the Pipestem necessary part of a reintroduc- such as compensating livestock Pack died of parvo virus after tion program, especially in the owners, hunters and state game being recaptured. A veterinar- early years, Phillips said. departments for lost income ian's report says the pups likely caused by wolves that kill cattle were recovering from the virus "We're removing wolves but we or game animals, Hutchinson but relapsed "as (a) result of have to -- that's the way our law said. stress from the whole trapping is written," Buchanan added. affair." GRAPHIC: PHOTO BY: JOUR- Predators and purity NAL FILE PHOTO: Color Five * Another litter of pups from the years into a reintroduction pro- Francisco Pack died in May. Ranchers have their own com- gram to restore endangered Their pack had been running wild plaints. Mexican gray wolves in the wild, in Arizona but was recaptured in there are dozens of free-ranging March after straying onto the San Livestock industry and county lobos in the Southwest. PHOTO Carlos Apache reservation. groups from New Mexico and BY: RICHARD PIPES/JOURNAL Arizona contend in a lawsuit that PHOTO: b/w Mexican gray The tribe does not want wolves the Fish and Wildlife Service has wolves are held in this pen at Ted on its land. In fact, most of the not been honest about how many Turner's Ladder Ranch and at wolves removed from the wild cattle and sheep the wolves other captive facilities before have been recaptured at the re- would kill. being released in the wild or after quest of San Carlos, Buchanan being recaptured. PHOTO BY: said. "Our calculations have been RICHARD PIPES/JOURNAL borne out by the on-the-ground PHOTO: Color A Mexican gray The alpha female gave birth to facts," Hutchinson said. "The wolf circles the edge of his pen at five pups while back in captivity depredation numbers have been the Ladder Ranch near Truth or at Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch much higher than they pre- Consequences. Ranchers have southwest of Truth or Conse- dicted." gone to court seeking a tempo- quences. Soon after, a major rary halt to new wolf releases. construction project to protect He said hundreds of head of live- PHOTO BY: RICHARD native fish started in Animas stock have been killed. PIPES/JOURNAL PHOTO: Color Creek near the wolf pen. A wolf no longer a candidate for Buchanan said she could not talk release in the wild is moved from "We had concerns," Buchanan about the suit, but the Fish and a captive facility to the said, adding that the wolves were Wildlife Service has denied the Alamogordo Zoo. Environmen- stressed, running and pacing allegations in court filings. talists say government manage- around their enclosure. ment rules are hurting the wolves' Hutchinson said the service ability to survive in the wild. Phillips, who also is executive based its depredation numbers PHOTO BY: JOURNAL FILE director of the Turner Endan- on areas with different grazing PHOTO: b/w The controversy gered Species Fund, founded by systems. over recommended changes to media mogul Ted Turner, said the Mexican gray wolf reintroduc- experts agreed there was little The suit also says hybridization tion program remains unresolved threatens the wolves' genetic after two years of debate.

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