Twin Peaks brief. Sheep depredation south of Bellevue not wolf.

Twin Peaks brief: Hurless has a bone pit!
Depredation near Bellevue not Wolf
April 9, 2000

The sub-adult wolf that was radio-collared in hopes it would lead back to the remaining Twin Peaks Pack pups so they could be all killed has not done that.
The Challis Messenger reported last week that instead the wolf had climbed over the ridge and away from Hurless's place.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in a more recent report, however, wrote: "The 'judas' wolf from the defunct Twin Peaks pack that was left at the Broken Wing Ranch remains near the ranch and has been digging up and feeding at the bone pit; the wolf continues to remain alone. Traps that were set for other pack members were pulled on the 4th because they would probably just catch that individual again. The radioed wolf will continue to be monitored and it and other pack members will be removed if any more conflicts with livestock occur."
This is very interesting. . . "digging up and feeding at the bone pit." I had earlier speculated whether the Hurless Place has some sort of attractant that might explain the unusual persistence of wolves near the place.
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In another matter, a wolf was reported to have killed an elk just south of Bellevue, Idaho at the mouth of the Big Wood River Valley. This is about 15 miles south of Sun Valley/Ketchum.
Last week a rancher reported that two large silvery gray canids had killed some of his sheep just south of Bellevue. Things looked bad for the wolf or wolves moving into the area. Now it appears they were killed by some wolf hybrids that had escaped a neighbor.

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