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Billings, Mont. • Surveys show that many people who visit Yellowstone National Park hope to see wolves.
Park interpreters annually talk to anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 people a year about wolves.
But a Montana biologist provides a way for wolf enthusiasts to learn the lives, pedigrees and genealogy of the wolves.
Jim Halfpenny is founder of the Yellowstone Wolf Genealogy Family Tree.
The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2rFhoNL) that Halfpenny started recording the lineage of Yellowstone's wolves when they were first reintroduced to the park in 1995 and 1996.
The information is available online at http://www.wolfgenes.info as well as Ancestry.com.
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Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com