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University of Montana economist: Wolves a big moneymaker. Yellowstone Park survey finds animals have $70M effect

April 7, 2006/

Those are million-dollar wolves in Yellowstone National Park, says a University of Montana economist.

Each year, people who come to Yellowstone hoping to glimpse a wolf spend around $35 million in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, according to an intensive study of visitors by John Duffield and others.

By MIKE STARK
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/07/news/state/25-wolves.txt

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