The hunter was the state's governor, Greg Gianforte. I said I wanted no part of it, the warden, Justin Hawkaluk, recalled with a barely audible chuckle. By the time the wolf affair was settled, his superiors had pressured him to lie about the governor's role, and his boss would be forced out of the department, he told The New York Times in his first interview about the episode.
But Mr. Gianforte, a Republican, is running for re-election this year, and some find the killing of a once-protected species distasteful. The treatment of wolves is back in the news, after a snowmobiler in Wyoming struck one, taped its mouth shut and showed it off at a bar before killing it. Law enforcement officers involved with recording Mr. Gianforte's wolf, collared as No. 1155 by trackers in nearby Yellowstone National Park, now say the procedures were anything but typical.
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