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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Now, is the gray wolf a growing and threatening predator or a necessary player in the ecosystem of the Western U.S.? That's a debate playing out with real consequences in Montana, where a new gun hunting season began this past week.
NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.
MILES O'BRIEN: Even on a good day, running a cattle ranch is a mighty tough way to scratch out a living.
And when I met rancher Martin Davis, he was not having a good day at all.
MARTIN DAVIS, Flying Diamond Ranch: Looks like about half of our cows are down where they're not supposed to be.
MILES O'BRIEN: He runs the Flying Diamond Ranch, a small operation with 130 head of cattle in Montana's Paradise Valley. But there was trouble in Paradise on this day.
MARTIN DAVIS: I think they're all gone.
MILES O'BRIEN: His cows were not where he left them, in the summer pasture high in the mountains above his homestead. It was a mystery. But he had a prime suspect in mind from the get-go.
(HOWLING)
MILES O'BRIEN: Among ranchers like Martin Davis, the wolf is always guilty until proven, well, soon-to-be-guilty.
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