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Show THE HERALD, Frovo, Utah, Sunday December 8, Page CM By SPORTS AFIELD For AP Special Features 1291 age-ol- populations throughout North America before me year 2000. This is an amazing turnaround for the wolf, according to an article in the current issue of Sports Afield. That's because, as recently as 50 years ago, its eradication was U.S. government policy. It nearly are not the efficient killers we in 12 thought they were. Only one confrontations of wolf packs and moose at Isle Royale resulted in a n. A landmark study on Isle Royale in Lake Superior revealed the way wolves and moose depend on each other to maintain healthy populations of both species. Wolves also succeeded. By 1960, wolves had been exterminated from all but the most re T nH Iwy fUi of evidence indicated that humans have little to fear from healthy wild wolves." Wolves are so afraid of people that biologists who study them moose kill. have conservaand difficulty getting close. ranchers Though "I had to go all the way to near tionists remain polarized over the reintroduction of the species in the North Pole before I could find a pack that would tolerate me," Yellowstone National Park, AmerMech wrote. "Ill never forget the that now icans generally agree in day I walked down a hill to what I wolves are an important element thought was a den and was suddena wilderness ecosystem. L. ly confronted by a pack of seven fear Wolves greariy people. David Mech, a biologist with the adults. "The alpha male barked his U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at me, and the the entire alarm wolf in ecology who specializes me back up the hill. escorted "The pack said: weight and behavior, deer, elk, moose, caribou and musk-oxe- n fag hain trifloer return of nea liny won pacn& mote wilderness areas in Canada, Alaska, Minnesota and Mexico. Fear of wolves is a combination of their dangerous look and myth, but by the 1970s people began to understand the importance of ecoorsystems and how every Irving conan within ecosystem ganism tributes to our lives. Wolves are a natural control on their prey Americans are overcoming d fear of the woif and man's that may mean the taking steps reestablishment of healthy wolf - - F 11 1 ft would not have taken them long to put me down and finish me, had they decided to." Wolves are monogamous, Irving in family groups of parents, The youngsters and close relatives. the raise family works as a team to deand food youngsters, procure fend a2ainst enemies. In North America the woif family consists of me gray or timber wolf, red wolf and coyote. The gray wolf is the largest. Its diet consists of deer, beaver, t, snowshoe hare, squirrels and but it also eats sheep and cattle. In Minnesota, mus-kra- easy-to-k- fr4lkilgn ill MONDAY! OUR BEST SELECTION EVER! Hey Guys! 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Set Tur "' where annual wolf damage claims are paid, about 0.5 percent of the livestock are killed by wolves. In the upper Midwest, the wolf population breaks down into 40 animals in Wisconsin, 1 ,600 to 1 ,800 in northern Minnesota, 10 to 15 ia the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and 12 on Isle Royale. In the Rocky Mountain area, while ranchers and wildlife biolo- gists debated reintroducing gray wolves in Glacier National Park a decade ago, a pack crossed over from Canada and established KAYSVILLE (AP) Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Gary W. Seideman confronted some- thing few other Desert Storm vet- erans had to face. Trapped behind enemy lines, he and eight other commandos held off attacking Iraqi soldiers for six hours until they were evacuated in a daring helicopter rescue. Seideman, 30, is a Kaysville native and a graduate of Davis High who has gone on to the specialized, dangerous work of the Special Forces. Trained to speak Arabic and Farsi, one of Seideman's missions during the Persian Gulf war took him deep inside Iraq to spy on ' the enemy. Seideman's story is a rare Account of fighting behind enepiy lines. Reporters were restricted from covering much of the actual combat, and as a result few suqh stories have been made public: f ' A few days before the ground war started, the commandos were stationed 150 miles inside Iraq. They dug themselves in to camouflaged holes and began watching a major road intersection to keep tabs on enemy equipment movements. Too late, they discovered that'a - j j ; ' 4 group of nomadic Bedouin shepherds were camped close by. The Green Berets hunkered down arid tried to keep their heads low. Soon, a Bedouin chasing a sheep wandered too close and spotted Seideman's teammaf?. Sgt. Troy Colson. Colson asked Seideman if he should shoot. "I told him to hold off for a moment. He wasn't a combatant and if we were captured they (the Iraqis) could hold that over our heads murdering a civilian," Seideman said. The Bedouin ran away, yelling in Arabic. The commandos , grabbed their rucksacks and retreated to a nearby irrigation canal. Within seven minutes, Iraqi soldiers camped nearby were bearing down on them, flanking them along the canal about 100 yards away. "They started firing on us, running at us and shooting ... We fired back and tried to cover behind our backpacks ... Luckily they were bad shots. We started to run. I thought, "Well, this is it. I'm going to get shot in the head. Here we go,"' Seideman said. The men took turns covering for each other, one firing back at the Iraqis while the other two ran, until they reached the rest of their team mates some 500 yards back, wnere they "rallied at the wagon." One of the team members had been radioing for evacuation. They were told a daytime rescue was too dangerous. They would have to hold the Iraqis off until nightfall 12 hours away. For the moment, the team was holding its own. But enemy reinforcements would arrive soon, and they knew they probably would be overwhelmed and taken. In the meantime, the Air Force was going to help out. Within an Falcon swooped in hour, an F-and dropped clusoverhead feet 50 ter bombs around the team.! The commandos buried their heads as bombs were two side of them, each to dropped "We were in a doughnut hole. (The pilot) was melting everything to the sides of us," Seideman said. "He kept dusting everything 500-poun- d j i Since things had calmed down, out the commandos sent the on a few local F-1- scarch-and-destr- !J'urniture.iniLz missions. G.al IJ.n ; j Finally word came the daylight rescue would be attempted after S STORE HOURS: Hon. Frl., -- FURNITURE AND INTERIORS 1066 So. State Sm around us, and finally they ' were asking us for targets." 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