In September of 2009. the story goes, a black wolf approached an idling truck at a trailhead parking lot north of Juneau, Alaska. A window was rolled down, a .22-caliber rifle was aimed, and the wolf was killed. Two men hefted the carcass into the truck's bed and brought it to a local taxidermist to be skinned and tanned. Killing wolves in Alaska is commonplace and rarely sparks much of a reaction. The trouble was, this was no ordinary wolf. For six years it had been Juneau's darling, frequenting the edge of suburbia near Mendenhall Lake. It was one ot the most photographed "wild" wolves ever.
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