[Idaho] Students hike, howl and collect DNA in Idaho wolf study
From UIdaho.edu:
At the edge of a mist-shrouded meadow near central Idaho’s Salmon River five student researchers stand knee deep in larkspur and Indian paintbrush as one of them uses a funnel to project a mock wolf howl into the silence around them. After a few tries, a wild wolf returns a howl from a forested mountain slope on the other side of the clearing.
U of I wolf researcher and doctoral student Peter Rebholz gives the students a thumbs up. The return howl confirms Rebholz’s hunch that wolves are nearby.
