12:09 PM MDT on Monday, September 26, 2005

Associated Press

LEWISTON -- Federal trappers killed one gray wolf Friday and are hunting another from a pack that roams an area of North Idaho.

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Federal trappers killed a gray wolf Friday because the predators was killing livestock.

The pack killed a cow earlier this month. It's the third cow death blamed on the wolves this summer.

The pack is also blamed for killing several hunting dogs on its home range over the past year.

Officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is charged with protecting gray wolves, authorized the trappers to kill two adult members of the pack.

Wolves in most of Idaho are protected under the Endangered Species Act, but it is legal for authorities to kill wolves that prey on livestock.