If there’s anything redeeming about the February incident in which a wild wolf was run over by a snowmobiler, then muzzled and paraded around a Wyoming bar before it was killed, it’s as an opportunity for hunters to define ourselves against a rising narrative that equates the wolf abuser with restrained and purposeful hunting.

Read McKean's full story at outdoorlife.com/wyomingwolf

Read McKean's Q&A with the DOI's new wolf mediator: outdoorlife.com/hunting/wolf-management-mediator/

Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio.

Hosted by editor-in-chief Alex Robinson.

Produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

Reporting by hunting and conservation editor Andrew McKean.

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