Molly's Pack has pups

July 7, 2001

After having but one pup in 1999 and no pups in 2000, Yellowstone's Mollies Pack (formerly named "Crystal Creek") has at last had pups. Dr. Doug Smith told me he had counted six pups, several times in flights over their range in the Pelican Valley.

The identity of the alphas is not certain, but Smith said the preponderance of evidence favors wolf 174F as the mother of the pups. 

The Crystal Creek pack was renamed Mollies Pack in 2000 after the late Molly Beattie, who was director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, when the wolves were reintroduced. Beattie died at a premature age in 1996. She was the first female director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, serving from 1993 to 1996.

I am glad her namesake pack is now thriving. When she was dying, Molly's mother recently told me that Molly was talking about her pleasure in seeing the wolves returned.

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