Anchorage Daily News, AP: Wolves prime suspect in Alaska jogger’s death
In Alaska it is news, but not entirely shocking news, that a wild beast or two may have killed a person. They have polar bears, huge and unpredictable moose, brown bears … and wolves. Wolf attacks on people are extremely rare. But wolves and their hazards to people are such a hotly contested nexus in the lower 48 and particularly in the northern Rockies, it seems likely that some US environmental policy arguments will shift on news that it was probably wolves that killed a school teacher in Alaska. Newly arrived in the state, she died as she jogged on a dirt, country road Monday in the Chignik Lake district on the Alaskan Peninsula.
Stories:
- Anchorage Daily News – James Halpin: Teacher likely killed by wolves, troopers say. He reports this as the first documented case of a fatal attack on a person by healthy, wild wolves in Alaska – and perhaps only the second in North America. The local villagers already, he reports, had noticed unusually bold behavior by wolves near town.
- AP – Dan Joling: Autopsy: Animal fatally mauled teacher in Alaska ;
- Reuters – Yereth Rosen: Teacher killed by wolves in Alaska: Police.
- Charlie Petit
