Natural migration, federal protections aided Northwest Montana's wolf recovery
Wolf
A female gray wolf stepped over the Canadian border and into Montana 45 years ago. Her name was Kishinena.
Kishinena weighed about 80 pounds, had a range of up to 30 miles on each side of the border north of Glacier National Park and was believed to be running with at least a few other wolves upon her crossing into the U.S.
Named after a creek in southeast British Columbia, Kishinena was the first wolf captured and collared by biologists in the North Fork of the Flathead drainage in 1979 after the species had been eradicated from the region decades prior.
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